Test 7 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to…

lasse was lowkey scared the whole time right

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

This is test 7 · ★ 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	lasse	lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl:unmarked
8	right	right	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	lasse				time	lowkey, right, scared 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

deadass he was scared the whole trip and kept saying no to every single new place they reached

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	deadass	deadass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trip	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trip	amod
7	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	conj
10	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 saying	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 place	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 place	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 place	amod
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 place	amod
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saying	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	nsubj
18	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 place	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	deadass			scared property	tree rules
2	keep	past	deadass not said here				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	deadass not said here	no	every single new place		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to place=Recipient
4	reach	past	they	every single new place not said here			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme

Option 2

deadass, he kept vibing with no and was terrified basically the whole time honestly

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	vibing	vibe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 no	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 vibing	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 terrified	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 terrified	cop
10	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	conj
11	basically	basically	ADV	_	14 time	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
15	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	14 time	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	deadass	time		tree rules
2	vibe	gerund	deadass not said here		with no	tree rules
3	is	past	deadass not said here		terrified property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

deadass, he kept vibing with no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	vibing	vibe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 no	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 vibing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	deadass						tree rules
2	vibe	gerund	deadass not said here					with no	tree rules

Option 4

yeah he was scared but still brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scared	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 brave	cc
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 brave	advmod
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here				still		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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1298-pg3454-part23/t7/