--- title: bro, how deep was the channel in the middle at high water? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics description: bro, how deep was the channel in the middle at high water? Test 10 · ★ 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 and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1488-pg503-part75/t10/) [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/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive… bro, how deep was the channel in the middle at high water? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** channel, middle This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t10:1 # text = bro, how deep was the channel in the middle at high water? 1 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 deep deep ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 channel channel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | bro | the channel | | the middle | | at high water; deep *property* | tree rules | 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} About six feet, like seventy glumguffs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t10:o1:1 # text = About six feet, like seventy glumguffs 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 glumguffs glumguff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Like ten glumguffs, bro ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t10:o2:1 # text = Like ten glumguffs, bro 1 Like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 glumguffs glumguff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} About six feet, like seventy yards ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t10:o3:1 # text = About six feet, like seventy yards 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} About four feet, like forty glumguffs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t10:o4:1 # text = About four feet, like forty glumguffs 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 glumguffs glumguff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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