Test 14 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to…

did the gardener actually shoot lasse

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do, shoot · To what, where: gardener, lasse

This is test 14 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gardener	det
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 shoot	advmod
5	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	lasse	lasse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shoot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the gardener					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Eventuality
2	shoot	present		lasse				actually property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lasse=Theme

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

nope, he only scolded him for doing it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 scolded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scolded	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 scolded	advmod
5	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scolded	obj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 doing	mark
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 scolded	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past	he	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	do	gerund	he not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nope he just told him not to do it again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 do	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	not do	to-infinitive		it			again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

nope he just told him not to do it again, but he did threaten to shoot him with his gun if he came back

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 do	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threaten	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 threaten	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threaten	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 threaten	aux
15	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 shoot	mark
17	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 threaten	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shoot	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 gun	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 gun	nmod:poss
21	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shoot	obl
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shoot	advcl
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		him = he			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not do not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it		again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	threaten	past · do-support	he					tree rules
4	shoot not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he			with his gun	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with gun=Instrument
5	come back a condition, not said to happen	past	he					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

no, he told him to stop, nothing more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nothing	punct
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 stop	obj
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	nothing					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality nothing=Eventuality

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