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title: wait the crow and the cat didnt even care lol — Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23:… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait the crow and the cat didnt even care lol Test 2 · ★ 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; Mova
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# Test 2 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to…

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wait the crow and the cat didnt even care lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, cat didnt · **What happens:** wait, care · **To what, where:** crow

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t2:1
# text = wait the crow and the cat didnt even care lol
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	didnt	didnt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | the crow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **care** | infinitive | the cat didnt |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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ngl they just vibed and watched

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t2:o1:1
# text = ngl they just vibed and watched
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	vibed	vibe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vibe** | past | ngl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | past | ngl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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bruh literally zero help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t2:o2:1
# text = bruh literally zero help
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	literally	literally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	zero	zero	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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bro they just sat there doing nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t2:o3:1
# text = bro they just sat there doing nothing
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | they |  |  | there |  | bro *vocative* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | they *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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nah, nobody

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t2:o4:1
# text = nah, nobody
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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