Test 16 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to…
why is the boat called father's own
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, call · To what, where: boat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 16 · ★ 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 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 boat | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 boat | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boat | det |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 boat | acl |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 own | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 father | case |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 called | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the boat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | the boat not said here | own property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
it was his dads boat, a white painted one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boat | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boat | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 boat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dads | dads | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boat | amod |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 painted | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 white | det |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 painted | nsubj |
| 9 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 boat | acl:relcl |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 painted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | his dads boat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | a white | one | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Destination |
Option 2
it was painted white and belonged to his dad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 painted | aux:pass |
| 3 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 painted | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 belonged | cc |
| 6 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 painted | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 dad | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dad | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belonged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past · passive | it | white property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | to his dad | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
it was his dads boat, a white painted one, and the name was from when his father was a young man
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boat | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boat | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 boat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dads | dads | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boat | amod |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 9 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 boat | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 man | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 name | det |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 man | cop |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 man | advmod |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 man | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | his dads boat and a young man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the name | from a young man | tree rules |
Option 4
it's the family's old fishing boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 boat | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 boat | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 family | det |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 family | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boat | amod |
| 7 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boat | compound |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | the family's old fishing boat | tree rules |
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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