Test 11 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

what was Maie humming, like the song?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Maie humming

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 humming	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 humming	cop
3	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 humming	compound
4	humming	humming	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 song	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 song	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 song	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 humming	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 humming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Maie humming and the song					tree rules

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

A hymn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hymn	det
2	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A magic rhyme

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rhyme	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rhyme	amod
3	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A sad ballad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ballad	det
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ballad	amod
3	ballad	ballad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	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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