--- title: What was the stated purpose of the approaching officer's visit? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics description: What was the stated purpose of the approaching officer's visit? Exam question 4 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 a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1486-pg503-part73/e4/) [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/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked… What was the stated purpose of the approaching officer's visit? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stated purpose, visit, approaching officer · **What happens:** be, state, purpose, visit This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e4:1 # text = What was the stated purpose of the approaching officer's visit? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 stated state VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 approaching approaching NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 officer officer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 visit visit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the stated purpose of the approaching officer's visit | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **state** *speech: other* | participle | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **purpose** | | the approaching officer's visit | | | | | | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | | 4 | **visit** | | the approaching officer | | | | | | nom visit «act transitive»: 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} conveying the narrator to the capital for trial by the king ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e4:o1:1 # text = conveying the narrator to the capital for trial by the king 1 conveying convey VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 narrator narrator NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **convey** | gerund | | the narrator | the capital | | | for trial; by the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent narrator=Topic to capital=Recipient | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} conveying the narrator to the capital ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e4:o2:1 # text = conveying the narrator to the capital 1 conveying convey VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 narrator narrator NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **convey** | gerund | | the narrator | the capital | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent narrator=Topic to capital=Recipient | ### Option 3 {#o3} transporting the narrator to the court ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e4:o3:1 # text = transporting the narrator to the court 1 transporting transport VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 narrator narrator NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **transport** | gerund | | the narrator | | the court | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent narrator=Theme to court=Destination | ### Option 4 {#o4} conveying the narrator to the capital city and beyond it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e4:o4:1 # text = conveying the narrator to the capital city and beyond it 1 conveying convey VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 narrator narrator NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **convey** | gerund | | the narrator | the capital city | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent narrator=Topic to city=Recipient | **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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