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title: the dream boy was SMALLER than lasse?? — Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23:… · tree and pragmatics
description: the dream boy was SMALLER than lasse?? Test 4 · ★ 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's choi
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# Test 4 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to…

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the dream boy was SMALLER than lasse??

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dream boy · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t4:1
# text = the dream boy was SMALLER than lasse??
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	SMALLER	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lasse	lasse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the dream boy |  |  |  |  | than lasse; small *property* | tree rules |

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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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fr, he was like a little baby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t4:o1:1
# text = fr, he was like a little baby
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | like a fr little baby | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
kinda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t4:o2:1
# text = kinda
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fr, so tiny, like peak cute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t4:o3:1
# text = fr, so tiny, like peak cute
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cute	cute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fr, smaller but still kinda huge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t4:o4:1
# text = fr, smaller but still kinda huge
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	amod	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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