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title: Which animal did the text describe as wagging its tail upon perceivi… — Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which animal did the text describe as wagging its tail upon perceiving Little Lasse? Exam question 2 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, with the depen
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# Exam question 2 · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sai…

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Which animal did the text describe as wagging its tail upon perceiving Little Lasse?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animal, text · **What happens:** do, describe, wag, perceive · **To what, where:** tail, Little Lasse

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This is exam question 2 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1299-pg3454-part24/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:e2:1
# text = Which animal did the text describe as wagging its tail upon perceiving Little Lasse?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	wagging	wag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **describe** | present | the text |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wag** | gerund | the text *not said here* | text's tail |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 4 | **perceive** | gerund | the text *not said here* | Little Lasse |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lasse=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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Hektor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:e2:o1:1
# text = Hektor
1	Hektor	Hektor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:e2:o2:1
# text = Bo
1	Bo	Bo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Rex

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:e2:o3:1
# text = Rex
1	Rex	Rex	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Fylax

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1299-pg3454-part24:e2:o4:1
# text = Fylax
1	Fylax	Fylax	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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