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title: Which object did the officers record as found in the narrator's righ… — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the officers record as found in the narrator's right waistcoat pocket? Exam question 4 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 depend
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# Exam question 4 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleep…

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Which object did the officers record as found in the narrator's right waistcoat pocket?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object, officers · **What happens:** do, record, find · **To what, where:** right waistcoat pocket

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:e4:1
# text = Which object did the officers record as found in the narrator's right waistcoat pocket?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	record	record	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which object |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **record** | present | the officers |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | participle | the officers *not said here* |  |  | the narrator's right waistcoat pocket |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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white sheets of paper marked with many figures

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:e4:o1:1
# text = white sheets of paper marked with many figures
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | participle | white sheets of paper |  |  |  |  | with many figures | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with figure=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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thin white sheets covered with strange black figures

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:e4:o2:1
# text = thin white sheets covered with strange black figures
1	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | thin white sheets *not said here* |  |  |  | with strange black figures | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with figure=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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thin white sheets with stains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:e4:o3:1
# text = thin white sheets with stains
1	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	stains	stain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
white sheets marked with figures

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:e4:o4:1
# text = white sheets marked with figures
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | participle |  | white sheets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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