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title: Which implement did the narrator affix to the prow of each vessel? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which implement did the narrator affix to the prow of each vessel? Exam question 1 of lesson 1489 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 76: Gulliver pulls the enemy fleet, then escapes to Blefuscu» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 1 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 76: Gullive…

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Which implement did the narrator affix to the prow of each vessel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** implement · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** narrator affix

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1489 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 76: Gulliver pulls the enemy fleet, then escapes to Blefuscu» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1489-pg503-part76/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e1:1
# text = Which implement did the narrator affix to the prow of each vessel?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	implement	implement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	affix	affix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which implement | the narrator affix |  |  |  | to the prow of each vessel | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affix=Eventuality |

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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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a chain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e1:o1:1
# text = a chain
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a hook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e1:o2:1
# text = a hook
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a nail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e1:o3:1
# text = a nail
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a bolt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e1:o4:1
# text = a bolt
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bolt	bolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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