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title: wait, how tiny were the little peeps? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, how tiny were the little peeps? Test 3 · ★ 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 of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 3 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…

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wait, how tiny were the little peeps?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be · **To what, where:** tiny little peeps

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This is test 3 · ★ 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. 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:t3:1
# text = wait, how tiny were the little peeps?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	peeps	peep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the tiny little peeps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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}

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not six feet high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:t3:o1:1
# text = not six feet high
1	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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not six inches high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:t3:o2:1
# text = not six inches high
1	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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about six inches tall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:t3:o3:1
# text = about six inches tall
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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very small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:t3:o4:1
# text = very small
1	very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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