Test 4 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 76: Gullive…

Be real, why did Gulliver say no to the Emperor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Gulliver · What happens: be, say · To what, where: no, Emperor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 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. 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 say	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	Gulliver	Gulliver	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 say	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Emperor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Emperor	det
11	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					real property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Gulliver	no	the Emperor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to emperor=Recipient

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

no way he'd enslave folks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 enslave	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 enslave	aux
5	enslave	enslave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 way	acl:relcl
6	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 enslave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enslave	would	he	folks					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Patient

Option 2

he felt it wasn't fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fair	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fair	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fair	advmod
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	not is	past	it					fair property	tree rules

Option 3

he wanted to go back to England with his friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 England	case
7	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 friends	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friends	nmod:poss
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		England			with England's friends	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to england=Result

Option 4

he was too honest to lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 honest	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 honest	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 honest	advmod
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lie	mark
6	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 honest	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					honest property	tree rules
2	lie	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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