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title: Real talk, what was he hiding from the officers? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, what was he hiding from the officers? Test 14 · ★ 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 an
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# Test 14 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 74: a sleep…

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Real talk, what was he hiding from the officers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** hide · **To what, where:** Real talk, officers

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This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:t14:1
# text = Real talk, what was he hiding from the officers?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · progressive | he | Real talk |  | the officers |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent what=Patient from officer=Beneficiary |

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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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a compass and a knife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:t14:o1:1
# text = a compass and a knife
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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spectacles and a spy-glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:t14:o2:1
# text = spectacles and a spy-glass
1	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a pistol and a flask

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:t14:o3:1
# text = a pistol and a flask
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pistol	pistol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a spy-glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1487-pg503-part74:t14:o4:1
# text = a spy-glass
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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