Test 9 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sai…

Mate, what was Moti's problem with the milk bowls?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: problem

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 problem	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 problem	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 problem	cop
5	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 problem	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Moti	case
7	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 bowls	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bowls	det
10	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bowls	compound
11	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 problem	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Moti's problem				with the milk bowls	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

he kept breaking the bowls his father had bought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bowls	det
5	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breaking	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bought	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bought	aux
9	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 bowls	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	he		tree rules
2	break	gerund	he not said here	the bowls	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bowl=Patient
3	buy	past · perfect	his father	the bowls not said here	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme

Option 2

he drank it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	he	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he knocked over every bowl in the house each morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	2 knocked	compound:prt
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bowl	det
5	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knocked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock over	past	he	every bowl		the house	morning		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme in house=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he smashed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smashed	nsubj
2	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smashed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past	he	them = they					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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