Test 8 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to…

so the sun in africa was hot enough to burn the earth???

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sun · What happens: be, burn · To what, where: earth

This is test 8 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 hot	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hot	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 africa	case
5	africa	africa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hot	cop
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 hot	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 burn	mark
10	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hot	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burn	obj
13	???	???	PUNCT	_	7 hot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun in africa					enough, hot property	tree rules
2	burn	to-infinitive	the sun in africa not said here	the earth					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=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 · ← Mova's choice

no, warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 warm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

no cap, like ash level

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 level	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 level	case
5	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 level	compound
6	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	appos

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

Option 3

nah, chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 chill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	imperative	you not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

kinda, like a furnace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 kinda	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 furnace	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 furnace	det
5	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kinda	obl

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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