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title: Where did the narrator proceed after wading through the channel? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did the narrator proceed after wading through the channel? Exam question 4 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 q
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# Exam question 4 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 76: Gullive…

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Where did the narrator proceed after wading through the channel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** narrator · **What happens:** proceed, wade · **To what, where:** channel

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e4:1
# text = Where did the narrator proceed after wading through the channel?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	wading	wade	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | past · do-support | the narrator |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wade** | gerund | the narrator *not said here* |  |  | the channel |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through channel=Trajectory |

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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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the royal court of the Emperor of Lilliput

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e4:o1:1
# text = the royal court of the Emperor of Lilliput
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Lilliput	Lilliput	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the palace of Blefuscu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e4:o2:1
# text = the palace of Blefuscu
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Blefuscu	Blefuscu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the capital of Blefuscu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e4:o3:1
# text = the capital of Blefuscu
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Blefuscu	Blefuscu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the great harbour where the enemy fleet was anchored

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:e4:o4:1
# text = the great harbour where the enemy fleet was anchored
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	enemy	enemy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	anchored	anchor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anchor** | past · passive |  | the enemy fleet |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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