Exam question 1 · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…
Which figure is described as the ruler of the submarine dominion?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ruler · What happens: describe · To what, where: figure
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1313 «Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king for a cow and they break Sunday rest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 figure | det |
| 2 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 described | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 described | aux:pass |
| 4 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 ruler | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ruler | det |
| 7 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 described | obl:agent |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dominion | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dominion | det |
| 10 | submarine | submarine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dominion | compound |
| 11 | dominion | dominion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ruler | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 described | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | the ruler of the submarine dominion | which figure | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Ilo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ilo | ilo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Aho
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aho | Aho | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Antti
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antti | Antti | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Ahti
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahti | Ahti | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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