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title: dead hungry, yeah? how much did he scoff? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics
description: dead hungry, yeah? how much did he scoff? Test 9 · ★ 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 c
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# Test 9 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…

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dead hungry, yeah? how much did he scoff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** scoff · **To what, where:** much

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:t9:1
# text = dead hungry, yeah? how much did he scoff?
1	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	scoff	scoff	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scoff** | past · do-support | he | much |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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three loaves at a time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:t9:o1:1
# text = three loaves at a time
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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four loaves at a time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:t9:o2:1
# text = four loaves at a time
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three pies in a go

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:t9:o3:1
# text = three pies in a go
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pies	pie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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two bites

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:t9:o4:1
# text = two bites
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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