Test 5 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…
innit wild that they had to hold their foot to swear?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, they · What happens: innit, have, hold, swear · To what, where: foot
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 innit | xcomp |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 innit | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hold | mark |
| 7 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 foot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 swear | mark |
| 11 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hold | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | innit | imperative | you not said here | wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | they | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | they not said here | their foot | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swear | to-infinitive | they not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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
Nah, just a handshake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 handshake | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 handshake | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 handshake | det |
| 5 | handshake | handshake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, they shook hands, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 shook | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shook | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | they | hands | mate vocative | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, right hand on heart, proper weird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 hand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hand | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 weird | punct |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 weird | amod |
| 9 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, right foot in left hand, proper weird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 foot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 foot | punct |
| 3 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 foot | discourse |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hand | amod |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 foot | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 weird | punct |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weird | amod |
| 10 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 foot | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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