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title: By what means were the narrator's arms and legs immobilised? — Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lillip… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means were the narrator's arms and legs immobilised? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Exam question 3 · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 73: wrecked…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1486-pg503-part73/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e3:1
# text = By what means were the narrator's arms and legs immobilised?
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	immobilised	immobilis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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fastened with strings to pegs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e3:o1:1
# text = fastened with strings to pegs
1	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pegs	peg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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tied up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e3:o2:1
# text = tied up
1	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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bound with cords to stakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e3:o3:1
# text = bound with cords to stakes
1	bound	bound	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	stakes	stake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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fastened with ropes to posts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1486-pg503-part73:e3:o4:1
# text = fastened with ropes to posts
1	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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