--- title: What was the Emperor's sword handle made of, bro? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics description: What was the Emperor's sword handle made of, bro? Test 10 · ★ 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 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/1487-pg503-part74/t10/) [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/1487-pg503-part74/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleep… What was the Emperor's sword handle made of, bro? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sword handle · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** sword handle This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:t10:1 # text = What was the Emperor's sword handle made of, bro? 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 4 det _ _ 4 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the Emperor's sword handle | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | the Emperor's sword handle *not said here* | | | | of bro | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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} iron ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:t10:o1:1 # text = iron 1 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} shining bronze blade ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:t10:o2:1 # text = shining bronze blade 1 shining shine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 bronze bronze ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shine** | gerund | | bronze blade | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blade=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:t10:o3:1 # text = gold 1 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} polished silver ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:t10:o4:1 # text = polished silver 1 polished polish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **polish** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | **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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