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title: Bro, what did Gulliver stick on his nose so the arrows didn't get hi… — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did Gulliver stick on his nose so the arrows didn't get his eyes? Test 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
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# Test 1 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 76: Gullive…

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Bro, what did Gulliver stick on his nose so the arrows didn't get his eyes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gulliver, arrows · **What happens:** stick, not get · **To what, where:** nose, eyes

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This is test 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:t1:1
# text = Bro, what did Gulliver stick on his nose so the arrows didn't get his eyes?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Gulliver	Gulliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | past · do-support | Gulliver |  |  | Gulliver's nose |  | Bro *vocative* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent what=Theme on nose=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **get** | past · do-support | the arrows | Gulliver's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus |

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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 hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:t1:o1:1
# text = a hat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hat	hat	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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his specs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:t1:o2:1
# text = his specs
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	specs	spec	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 mask

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:t1:o3:1
# text = a mask
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mask	mask	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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his glasses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1489-pg503-part76:t1:o4:1
# text = his glasses
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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