--- title: Upon which object did the vessel first sustain fatal damage? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics description: Upon which object did the vessel first sustain fatal damage? Exam question 1 of lesson 1486 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked on a rock, tied down, fed by tiny people» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1486-pg503-part73/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1486-pg503-part73/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked… Upon which object did the vessel first sustain fatal damage? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do, sustain · **To what, where:** vessel, fatal damage This is exam question 1 of lesson 1486 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked on a rock, tied down, fed by tiny people» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1486-pg503-part73/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e1:1 # text = Upon which object did the vessel first sustain fatal damage? 1 Upon upon ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 3 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 vessel vessel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 advmod _ _ 8 sustain sustain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 fatal fatal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 damage damage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | which object | the vessel | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Eventuality | | 2 | **sustain** | present | which object *not said here* | fatal damage | | | | first *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent damage=Theme | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} a reef ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e1:o1:1 # text = a reef 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 reef reef NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} a submerged rock ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e1:o2:1 # text = a submerged rock 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 submerged submerge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **submerge** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} rocks ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e1:o3:1 # text = rocks 1 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a submerged rock near the shore ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e1:o4:1 # text = a submerged rock near the shore 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 submerged submerge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 near near ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **submerge** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | **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. 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