Exam question 4 · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

Which object did the students offer to the old man as payment for the meal?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, students · What happens: do, offer · To what, where: old man

This is exam question 4 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 students	det
5	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 offer	nsubj
6	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 man	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offer	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 payment	case
12	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 meal	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 meal	det
15	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 payment	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	offer	present	the students		the old man as payment for the meal				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to man=Goal

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

A shining silver coin from the captain's purse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coin	det
2	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 coin	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coin	compound
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 purse	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 captain	det
7	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 purse	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 captain	case
9	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coin	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Two shining silver coins and a small brass key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 coins	nummod
2	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 coins	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coins	compound
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 key	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 key	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 key	amod
8	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 key	compound
9	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coins	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Shining silver coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coin	compound
3	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shining	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund		silver coin					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 4

Shining brass button

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 button	compound
3	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shining	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund		brass button					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent button=Theme

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