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description: According to the text, what was the depth of the channel at its middle, at high water, in glumguffs? Exam question 2 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 sc
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# Exam question 2 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…

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According to the text, what was the depth of the channel at its middle, at high water, in glumguffs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** text · **What happens:** accord, be · **To what, where:** depth

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e2:1
# text = According to the text, what was the depth of the channel at its middle, at high water, in glumguffs?
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	glumguffs	glumguff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the text and high water and glumguffs | the depth |  |  |  | of the channel at channel's middle | tree rules |

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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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Seventy glumguffs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e2:o1:1
# text = Seventy glumguffs
1	Seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	glumguffs	glumguff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sixty glumguffs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e2:o2:1
# text = Sixty glumguffs
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	glumguffs	glumguff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Seventeen glumguffs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e2:o3:1
# text = Seventeen glumguffs
1	Seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	glumguffs	glumguff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ten glumguffs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e2:o4:1
# text = Ten glumguffs
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	glumguffs	glumguff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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