Test 9 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…
how wide was the bit of water between the two islands?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: wide bit
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 wide | advmod |
| 2 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bit | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bit | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | nmod |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 islands | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 islands | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 islands | nummod |
| 11 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 water | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the wide bit | of water between the two islands | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Eight hundred yards, that's dead wide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 yards | nummod |
| 3 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wide | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yards | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wide | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wide | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wide | amod |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hundred yards | wide property | tree rules |
Option 2
Six hundred yards, that's dead wide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hundred | compound |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 yards | nummod |
| 3 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wide | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yards | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wide | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wide | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wide | amod |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hundred yards | wide property | tree rules |
Option 3
Only a few yards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 yards | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 yards | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yards | amod |
| 4 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Like a hundred yards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 yards | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hundred | det |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 yards | nummod |
| 4 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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