--- title: Through whose intercession was the sentence mitigated? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics description: Through whose intercession was the sentence mitigated? Exam question 3 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 question an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1489-pg503-part76/e3/) [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/1489-pg503-part76/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 76: Gullive… Through whose intercession was the sentence mitigated? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sentence · **What happens:** be, mitigate, intercede · **To what, where:** sentence, intercession This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e3:1 # text = Through whose intercession was the sentence mitigated? 1 Through through ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 intercession intercession NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 mitigated mitigate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the sentence | | the sentence's intercession | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mitigate** | participle | | the sentence *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **intercede** | | the sentence | | | | | | nom intercession «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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} Reldresal, the secretary ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e3:o1:1 # text = Reldresal, the secretary 1 Reldresal Reldresal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 secretary secretary NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the Emperor's trusted secretary of state ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e3:o2:1 # text = the Emperor's trusted secretary of state 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 secretary secretary NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Hurgo, the chief judge ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e3:o3:1 # text = Hurgo, the chief judge 1 Hurgo Hurgo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Flimnap, the Treasurer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e3:o4:1 # text = Flimnap, the Treasurer 1 Flimnap Flimnap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Treasurer Treasurer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 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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