Exam question 3 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…

By what means were the narrator's arms and legs immobilised?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: mean, be, immobilis · To what, where: narrator arms

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1486 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked on a rock, tied down, fed by tiny people» 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 narrator	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arms	compound
7	's	's	PART	_	6 narrator	case
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 means	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 legs	cc
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 arms	conj
11	immobilised	immobilis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 arms	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	narrator arms and legs		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Topic
2	is	past		's the narrator	tree rules
3	immobilis	participle	narrator arms and legs not said here		tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

fastened with strings to pegs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 strings	case
3	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 fastened	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 pegs	case
5	pegs	peg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 fastened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fasten	participle						with strings; to pegs	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with string=Instrument to peg=Co-Patient

Option 2

tied up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 tied	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	participle							vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

bound with cords to stakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 cords	case
3	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bound	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 stakes	case
5	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bound	imperative	you not said here			stakes		with cords	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stake=Destination

Option 4

fastened with ropes to posts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 ropes	case
3	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 fastened	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 posts	case
5	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 fastened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fasten	participle						with ropes; to posts	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with rope=Instrument to post=Co-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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