Test 15 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to…

if lasse hadnt prayed would he have died in the boat

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lasse hadnt · What happens: die

This is test 15 · ★ 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 died	mark
2	lasse	lasse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hadnt	compound
3	hadnt	hadnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
4	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 died	aux
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 died	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 died	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 died	aux
8	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 boat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boat	det
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would · past · perfect	lasse hadnt					in the boat	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in boat=Attribute

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

probably, the boat was far out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	probably	probably	ADV	_	7 out	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 probably	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boat	det
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 out	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 out	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 out	advmod
7	out	out	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boat					far, out, probably property	tree rules

Option 2

probably, the text makes it sound really scary, since the wind kept blowing him farther out and he was alone.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 makes	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 probably	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	obj
7	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	xcomp
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 scary	advmod
9	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sound	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 kept	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wind	det
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	nsubj
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 makes	parataxis
15	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 kept	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 blowing	obj
17	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 out	advmod
18	out	out	ADV	_	15 blowing	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 alone	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 alone	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 alone	cop
22	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 kept	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	the text	it	probably property	tree rules
2	sound	infinitive			scary property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	keep	past	the wind			tree rules
4	blow	gerund	the wind not said here	wind	out property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	is	past	text		alone property	tree rules

Option 3

yeah, it sounds like he would die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sounds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sounds	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sounds	nsubj
4	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 die	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 die	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 die	aux
8	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sounds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	it						tree rules
2	die	would	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

probably, the text makes it sound scary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 makes	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 probably	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	obj
7	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	xcomp
8	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the text	it				probably property	tree rules
2	sound	infinitive						scary property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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