Test 3 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…

wait, what actually happened when the fiery horse kicked the hanky?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fiery horse · What happens: wait, happen, kick · To what, where: hanky

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1488 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gulliver's horse show, his freedom, and his plan to seize Blefuscu's fleet» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 happened	advmod
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 kicked	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horse	det
8	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 horse	amod
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kicked	nsubj
10	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happened	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hanky	det
12	hanky	hanky	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kicked	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	past			actually property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kick	past	the fiery horse	the hanky		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hanky=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

The rider fell off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rider	det
2	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 fell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	the rider						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It tore a hole and the horse bolted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hole	det
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tore	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 horse	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hole	conj
8	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hole	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	It	a hole and the horse					tree rules
2	bolt	participle		a hole and the horse not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It made a hole and the rider fell off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hole	det
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fell	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rider	det
7	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 fell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	a hole					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material hole=Product
2	fall off	past	the rider						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

It kicked the hanky and nobody fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kicked	nsubj
2	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hanky	det
4	hanky	hanky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kicked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kicked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	It	the hanky					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hanky=Patient
2	fall	past	nobody						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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