Test 4 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to…

the dream boy was SMALLER than lasse??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dream boy · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	compound
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 SMALLER	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 SMALLER	cop
5	SMALLER	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 lasse	case
7	lasse	lasse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 SMALLER	obl
8	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 SMALLER	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dream boy					than lasse; small property	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

fr, he was like a little baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 baby	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 baby	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 baby	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 baby	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baby	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 baby	amod
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					like a fr little baby	tree rules

Option 2

kinda

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

fr, so tiny, like peak cute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 tiny	advmod
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 fr	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cute	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 cute	case
7	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cute	compound
8	cute	cute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tiny	conj

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

Option 4

fr, smaller but still kinda huge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 smaller	punct
3	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 fr	amod
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 huge	cc
5	still	still	ADV	_	7 huge	advmod
6	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	7 huge	advmod
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smaller	conj

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

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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