Exam question 3 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 76: Gullive…
Through whose intercession was the sentence mitigated?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: be, mitigate, intercede · To what, where: sentence, intercession
This is exam question 3 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 intercession | case |
| 2 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 3 intercession | nmod:poss |
| 3 | intercession | intercession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sentence | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sentence | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sentence | det |
| 6 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | mitigated | mitigate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sentence | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 sentence | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the sentence | the sentence's intercession | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mitigate | participle | the sentence not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | intercede | the sentence | nom intercession «communication intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Reldresal, the secretary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reldresal | Reldresal | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 secretary | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 secretary | det |
| 4 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reldresal | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the Emperor's trusted secretary of state
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 secretary | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Emperor | case |
| 4 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 secretary | amod |
| 5 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 state | case |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secretary | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Hurgo, the chief judge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hurgo | Hurgo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 judge | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 judge | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 judge | amod |
| 5 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hurgo | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Flimnap, the Treasurer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flimnap | Flimnap | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Treasurer | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Treasurer | det |
| 4 | Treasurer | Treasurer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Flimnap | 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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