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description: What was the approximate number of soldiers who, according to the text, fled from the enemy fleet onto the shore? Exam question 4 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
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# Exam question 4 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…

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What was the approximate number of soldiers who, according to the text, fled from the enemy fleet onto the shore?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, accord, flee, fleet · **To what, where:** approximate number, enemy

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e4:1
# text = What was the approximate number of soldiers who, according to the text, fled from the enemy fleet onto the shore?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	case	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	fleet	fleet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the approximate number |  |  |  | of soldiers | tree rules |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flee** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fleet** | infinitive |  |  |  | the enemy |  | onto the shore | 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 {#o1}

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No more than thirty thousand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e4:o1:1
# text = No more than thirty thousand
1	No	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Not fewer than thirty thousand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e4:o2:1
# text = Not fewer than thirty thousand
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Not fewer than thirty thousand soldiers from the enemy fleet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e4:o3:1
# text = Not fewer than thirty thousand soldiers from the enemy fleet
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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About thirty thousand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:e4:o4:1
# text = About thirty thousand
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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