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title: bro the ships were literal warships with pea shells lmao — Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23:… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro the ships were literal warships with pea shells lmao Test 9 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 9 · ★ · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 23: Lasse drifts out to…

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bro the ships were literal warships with pea shells lmao

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** literal warships

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t9:1
# text = bro the ships were literal warships with pea shells lmao
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	literal	literal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	warships	warship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	lmao	lmao	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bro | literal warships and lmao |  |  |  | with pea shells | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
frfr, pea shells, lowkey wild

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t9:o1:1
# text = frfr, pea shells, lowkey wild
1	frfr	frfr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, real ships

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t9:o2:1
# text = nah, real ships
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
lol yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t9:o3:1
# text = lol yeah
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
2	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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frfr, peas for cargo, deadass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1298-pg3454-part23:t9:o4:1
# text = frfr, peas for cargo, deadass
1	frfr	frfr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	deadass	deadass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	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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