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title: did lasse break his moms rule and get away with it — Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23:… · tree and pragmatics
description: did lasse break his moms rule and get away with it Test 12 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 12 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to…

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did lasse break his moms rule and get away with it

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** his · **What happens:** break, get away, rule · **To what, where:** moms rule

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This is test 12 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1298-pg3454-part23/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t12:1
# text = did lasse break his moms rule and get away with it
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	lasse	lasse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	moms	mom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past · do-support |  | his moms rule |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient |
| 2 | **get away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with rule; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rule** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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nah he got caught lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t12:o1:1
# text = nah he got caught lol
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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nope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t12:o2:1
# text = nope
1	nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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idk yet, it goes on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t12:o3:1
# text = idk yet, it goes on
1	idk	idk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **idk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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idk yet, the part ends before we find out, so you gotta keep reading

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t12:o4:1
# text = idk yet, the part ends before we find out, so you gotta keep reading
1	idk	idk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	gotta	gotta	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **idk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **end** | present | the part |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **find out** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **read** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**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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