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title: By what method was the narrator transported to the capital city? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what method was the narrator transported to the capital city? Exam question 2 of lesson 1487 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleeping giant is carried to the capital and chained in a temple» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 2 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleep…

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By what method was the narrator transported to the capital city?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, transport · **To what, where:** narrator

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1487 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleeping giant is carried to the capital and chained in a temple» 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/1487-pg503-part74/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:e2:1
# text = By what method was the narrator transported to the capital city?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	transported	transport	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the narrator |  |  |  | by method | tree rules |
| 2 | **transport** | participle |  | the narrator *not said here* |  |  |  | to the capital city | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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a wheeled wooden engine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:e2:o1:1
# text = a wheeled wooden engine
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wheeled	wheel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wheel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a long wheeled wooden engine drawn by horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:e2:o2:1
# text = a long wheeled wooden engine drawn by horses
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	wheeled	wheel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wheel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  | a long wheeled wooden engine *not said here* |  |  |  | by horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a large wheeled wooden engine on rails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:e2:o3:1
# text = a large wheeled wooden engine on rails
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	wheeled	wheel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rails	rail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wheel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a horse-drawn carriage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:e2:o4:1
# text = a horse-drawn carriage
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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