Exam question 1 · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sai…

Which means did the narrative employ to restrain Little Lasse from disembarking upon the shore?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, restrain, disembark · To what, where: narrative employ, Little Lasse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1299 «Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sailing the world, wakes in his boat, and Moti is robbed at an inn» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 employ	det
5	narrative	narrative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 employ	amod
6	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 restrain	mark
8	restrain	restrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 employ	acl
9	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Lasse	amod
10	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 restrain	obj
11	from	from	SCONJ	_	12 disembarking	mark
12	disembarking	disembark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 restrain	advcl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 shore	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shore	det
15	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disembarking	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the narrative employ		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
3	restrain	to-infinitive	Little Lasse		vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer lasse=Eventuality
4	disembark	gerund		upon the shore	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Option 1

a heavy iron chain bound tightly around his body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chain	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chain	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chain	compound
4	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 chain	acl
6	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	5 bound	advmod
7	around	around	ADP	_	9 body	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 body	nmod:poss
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	participle		a heavy iron chain not said here		his body		tightly property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a chain of flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chain	det
2	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 flowers	case
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chain	nmod

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

Option 3

a string of beads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 string	det
2	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 beads	case
4	beads	bead	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 string	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

thick ropes tied firmly to the anchored boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ropes	amod
2	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ropes	acl
4	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	3 tied	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 boat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boat	det
7	anchored	anchor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 boat	amod
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		thick ropes not said here				to the anchored boat; firmly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to boat=Co-Patient
2	anchor	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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