Test 8 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…
so the Blefuscu lot were gonna invade, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Blefuscu lot · What happens: invade
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 invade | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lot | det |
| 3 | Blefuscu | Blefuscu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lot | compound |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 invade | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 invade | aux |
| 6 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 invade | dep |
| 7 | invade | invade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 invade | punct |
| 9 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 invade | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 invade | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invade | past | the Blefuscu lot | tree rules |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, they were making a massive fleet of little boats to take the whole island tomorrow
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 making | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 making | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 making | aux |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fleet | det |
| 7 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fleet | amod |
| 8 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 making | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 boats | case |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boats | amod |
| 11 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fleet | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 making | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 island | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 island | amod |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 17 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | they | a massive fleet of little boats | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fleet=Product | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | they not said here | the whole island | tomorrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they were making a massive fleet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 making | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 making | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 making | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 making | aux |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fleet | det |
| 7 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fleet | amod |
| 8 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 making | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | they | a massive fleet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fleet=Product |
Option 3
Yeah, they were making a massive fleet and planning to hit the beach at dawn
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 making | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 making | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 making | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 making | aux |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fleet | det |
| 7 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fleet | amod |
| 8 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 making | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 planning | cc |
| 10 | planning | plan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 making | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hit | mark |
| 12 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 planning | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beach | det |
| 14 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 dawn | case |
| 16 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | they | a massive fleet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fleet=Product | ||||
| 2 | plan | gerund | they not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hit not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | the beach | dawn | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beach=Co-Theme |
Option 4
Nah, they were making a massive feast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 making | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 making | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 making | aux |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 7 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feast | amod |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 making | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | they | a massive feast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product |
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