--- title: What is the name of the officer who opposed the release of the Man-M… — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics description: What is the name of the officer who opposed the release of the Man-Mountain from his obligations? Exam question 1 of lesson 1488 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gulliver's horse show, his freedom, and his plan to seize Blefuscu's fleet» of the books course of Mova's primary schoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1488-pg503-part75/e1/) [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/1488-pg503-part75/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive… What is the name of the officer who opposed the release of the Man-Mountain from his obligations? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** officer, Mountain · **What happens:** be, oppose, obligate · **To what, where:** name, release This is exam question 1 of lesson 1488 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gulliver's horse show, his freedom, and his plan to seize Blefuscu's fleet» 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/1488-pg503-part75/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e1:1 # text = What is the name of the officer who opposed the release of the Man-Mountain from his obligations? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 officer officer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 opposed oppose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 release release NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Mountain Mountain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 obligations obligation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the name | | | | of the officer | tree rules | | 2 | **oppose** | past | the officer | the release of the Man | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent release=Patient | | 3 | **obligate** | | Mountain | | | | | | nom obligation «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} Skyresh Flimnap, lord high treasurer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e1:o1:1 # text = Skyresh Flimnap, lord high treasurer 1 Skyresh Skyresh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Flimnap Flimnap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 lord lord VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 treasurer treasurer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lord** | present | Skyresh | high treasurer | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Flimnap, the treasurer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e1:o2:1 # text = Flimnap, the treasurer 1 Flimnap Flimnap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 treasurer treasurer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Skyresh Bolgolam, admiral of the realm ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e1:o3:1 # text = Skyresh Bolgolam, admiral of the realm 1 Skyresh Skyresh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Bolgolam Bolgolam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 admiral admiral NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 realm realm NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Skyresh Bolgolam, lord high admiral ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e1:o4:1 # text = Skyresh Bolgolam, lord high admiral 1 Skyresh Skyresh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 Bolgolam Bolgolam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 lord lord VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 admiral admiral NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lord** | present | Skyresh | high admiral | | | | | tree rules | **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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