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title: how many enemies jumped out and swam for it? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics
description: how many enemies jumped out and swam for it? Test 12 · ★ 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 of the questio
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# Test 12 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…

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how many enemies jumped out and swam for it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many enemies · **What happens:** jump out, swim

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t12:1
# text = how many enemies jumped out and swam for it?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump out** | past | many enemies |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swim** | past | many enemies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for it | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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Twenty thousand, at most

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t12:o1:1
# text = Twenty thousand, at most
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thirty thousand, at least, all leaping off their ships at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t12:o2:1
# text = Thirty thousand, at least, all leaping off their ships at once
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
8	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap off** | gerund | all | their ships |  | least |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ship=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Thirty thousand or so, at least, and then they all got back on the ships

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t12:o3:1
# text = Thirty thousand or so, at least, and then they all got back on the ships
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | past | they | Thirty thousand |  | the ships | then |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on ship=Source |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thirty thousand, at least

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t12:o4:1
# text = Thirty thousand, at least
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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