Exam question 2 · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…
On which day of the week did the couple's transgression take place?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: couple · What happens: do, take, transgress · To what, where: transgression, place
This is exam question 2 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 week | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 couple | det |
| 9 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 transgression | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 couple | case |
| 11 | transgression | transgression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 did | parataxis |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the couple's transgression | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transgression=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 3 | transgress | the couple | nom transgression «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
The Sunday of the big storm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sunday | det |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 storm | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 storm | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 storm | amod |
| 6 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sunday | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Saturday evening after the church bells
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 bells | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bells | det |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bells | compound |
| 6 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Monday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunday | Sunday | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1313-pg3454-part38/e2/