Test 4 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sai…

Lol, what was Fylax doing on the steps?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fylax · What happens: do

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1299 «Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sailing the world, wakes in his boat, and Moti is robbed at an inn» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 doing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 doing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
5	Fylax	Fylax	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 doing	nsubj
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 steps	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 steps	det
9	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	Fylax					on the steps	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

wagging its tail and barking at the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wagging	wag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tail	nmod:poss
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wagging	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 barking	cc
5	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wagging	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 boy	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	gerund		its tail					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	bark	gerund						at the boy	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at boy=Stimulus

Option 2

growling softly at the stranger on the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	growling	growl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	softly	softly	ADV	_	1 growling	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 stranger	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stranger	det
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 growling	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 path	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 path	det
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 growling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	growl	gerund						on the path; at the stranger; softly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at stranger=Stimulus

Option 3

sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

barking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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/1299-pg3454-part24/t4/