Exam question 2 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 76: Gullive…
What sentence was pronounced upon the narrator by the council?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: council · What happens: pronounce · To what, where: sentence
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1489 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 76: Gulliver pulls the enemy fleet, then escapes to Blefuscu» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 pronounced | obj |
| 2 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pronounced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pronounced | aux:pass |
| 4 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 narrator | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 narrator | det |
| 7 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pronounced | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 council | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 council | det |
| 10 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pronounced | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 pronounced | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | past · passive | the council | sentence | upon the narrator | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme what=Result |
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
being thrown into the dungeon for life without trial
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thrown | aux:pass |
| 2 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 dungeon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dungeon | det |
| 5 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thrown | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thrown | obl |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 trial | case |
| 9 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thrown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | gerund · passive | into the dungeon result; for life; without trial | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into dungeon=Result |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the loss of his hands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hands | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 loss | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the loss of his eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 loss | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
being burned alive before the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 burned | aux:pass |
| 2 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 burned | xcomp |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund · passive | the palace | alive property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: before palace=Location |
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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