--- title: what was the mad war about, like seriously? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics description: what was the mad war about, like seriously? Test 7 · ★ 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 question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1488-pg503-part75/t7/) [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/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive… what was the mad war about, like seriously? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mad war This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t7:1 # text = what was the mad war about, like seriously? 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 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the mad war | | | | about *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 {#o1} Eggs, that's all ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t7:o1:1 # text = Eggs, that's all 1 Eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Who got the last bit of cake ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t7:o2:1 # text = Who got the last bit of cake 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 nsubj _ _ 2 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | | the last bit of cake | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | ### Option 3 {#o3} Breaking eggs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t7:o3:1 # text = Breaking eggs 1 Breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | gerund | | eggs | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Breaking eggs the wrong end ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t7:o4:1 # text = Breaking eggs the wrong end 1 Breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | gerund | | eggs | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent egg=Patient end=Result | **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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