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title: yo, so the giant built a stage out of like nine sticks and a hanky,… — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, so the giant built a stage out of like nine sticks and a hanky, right? Test 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, with the dependency tree 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…

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yo, so the giant built a stage out of like nine sticks and a hanky, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** giant · **What happens:** build · **To what, where:** stage, nine sticks

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This is test 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t1:1
# text = yo, so the giant built a stage out of like nine sticks and a hanky, right?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hanky	hanky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
18	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | the giant | a stage |  | nine sticks and a hanky |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stage=Product |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he fixed nine sticks in a square

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t1:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he fixed nine sticks in a square
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | past | he | nine sticks |  | a square |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stick=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he used six sticks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t1:o2:1
# text = Nah, he used six sticks
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | he | six sticks |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he fixed nine sticks in a row

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, he fixed nine sticks in a row
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | past | he | nine sticks |  | a row |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stick=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he fixed seven sticks in a ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t1:o4:1
# text = Nah, he fixed seven sticks in a ring
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | past | he | seven sticks |  | a ring |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stick=Patient |

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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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