Test 11 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to…

is the land of nod like a real place

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: land

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1298 «Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to sea and sails round the world in a dream» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 land	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 land	det
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 nod	case
5	nod	nod	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 land	nmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 place	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nod	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the land				of nod like a real place	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

nope, just a sleep place lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 place	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 place	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	compound
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 place	discourse

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

Option 2

nah, it's the dream world at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 world	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 world	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 world	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
6	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 world	compound
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 world	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the dream world			night		tree rules

Option 3

nah it's where you go when you sleep, a made-up dream place that only exists in the book

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 go	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	cop
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 go	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 sleep	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 sleep	nsubj
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 place	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 place	det
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 place	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 up	punct
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 made	compound:prt
15	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 place	compound
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	conj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 exists	nsubj
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 exists	advmod
19	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 place	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 book	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 book	det
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exists	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		go property	tree rules
2	sleep	present	you			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make up	participle				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	exist	present	a made dream place	the book		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in book=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah it's where you go when you sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 go	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	cop
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 go	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 sleep	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 sleep	nsubj
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					go property	tree rules
2	sleep	present	you						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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