Test 11 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 76: Gullive…
Mate, how long till the secretary came to read the charge?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: come, read · To what, where: charge
This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Mate | advmod |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 secretary | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 secretary | det |
| 7 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 long | obl |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 read | mark |
| 10 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 charge | det |
| 12 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 read | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Mate | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | read | to-infinitive | Mate not said here | the charge | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Topic |
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
until the next full moon arrived
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moon | amod |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moon | amod |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | nsubj |
| 6 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the next full moon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
two days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
as soon as the Emperor's council had finally met again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | as | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 met | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Emperor | det |
| 5 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 council | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Emperor | case |
| 7 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 met | aux |
| 9 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 10 met | advmod |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 soon | advcl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 met | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · perfect · passive | the Emperor's council | again | finally property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
three days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | 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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