Exam question 4 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 76: Gullive…
Where did the narrator proceed after wading through the channel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: proceed, wade · To what, where: channel
This is exam question 4 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 proceed | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 proceed | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 narrator | det |
| 4 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 proceed | nsubj |
| 5 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 wading | mark |
| 7 | wading | wade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 proceed | advcl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 channel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 channel | det |
| 10 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wading | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 proceed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past · do-support | the narrator | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wade | gerund | the narrator not said here | the channel | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through channel=Trajectory |
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 royal court of the Emperor of Lilliput
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 court | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 court | amod |
| 3 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Emperor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emperor | det |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 court | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Lilliput | case |
| 8 | Lilliput | Lilliput | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Emperor | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the palace of Blefuscu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Blefuscu | case |
| 4 | Blefuscu | Blefuscu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 palace | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the capital of Blefuscu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 capital | det |
| 2 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Blefuscu | case |
| 4 | Blefuscu | Blefuscu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 capital | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the great harbour where the enemy fleet was anchored
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 harbour | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 harbour | amod |
| 3 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 anchored | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fleet | det |
| 6 | enemy | enemy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fleet | amod |
| 7 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anchored | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 anchored | aux:pass |
| 9 | anchored | anchor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 harbour | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anchor | past · passive | the enemy fleet | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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