--- title: how wide was the bit of water between the two islands? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics description: how wide was the bit of water between the two islands? Test 9 · ★ 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 th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1488-pg503-part75/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive… how wide was the bit of water between the two islands? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** wide bit This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t9:1 # text = how wide was the bit of water between the two islands? 1 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 between between ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the wide bit | | | | of water between the two islands | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Eight hundred yards, that's dead wide ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t9:o1:1 # text = Eight hundred yards, that's dead wide 1 Eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | hundred yards | | | | | wide *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Six hundred yards, that's dead wide ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t9:o2:1 # text = Six hundred yards, that's dead wide 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | hundred yards | | | | | wide *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Only a few yards ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t9:o3:1 # text = Only a few yards 1 Only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Like a hundred yards ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1488-pg503-part75:t9:o4:1 # text = Like a hundred yards 1 Like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` 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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