Test 12 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to…
did lasse break his moms rule and get away with it
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: his · What happens: break, get away, rule · To what, where: moms rule
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 break | aux |
| 2 | lasse | lasse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 break | compound |
| 3 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 rule | nmod:poss |
| 5 | moms | mom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rule | compound |
| 6 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 break | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 get | cc |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 break | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · do-support | his moms rule | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient | |||||
| 2 | get away | infinitive | with rule; away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rule | his = he | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
nah he got caught lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 caught | discourse |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | aux:pass |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 caught | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | he | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
nope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
idk yet, it goes on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | idk | idk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 1 idk | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 idk | parataxis |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 goes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | idk | imperative | you not said here | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go on | present | it | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
idk yet, the part ends before we find out, so you gotta keep reading
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | idk | idk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 1 idk | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ends | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 part | det |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ends | nsubj |
| 6 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 idk | parataxis |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ends | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 find | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 keep | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 14 | gotta | gotta | PART | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 idk | conj |
| 16 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | idk | imperative | you not said here | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | end | present | the part | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | find out | present | we | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | read | gerund | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1298-pg3454-part23/t12/