Test 12 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

what do the maidens do when the music plays?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maidens · What happens: be, do · To what, where: music plays

This is test 12 · ★ 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	root	root
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maidens	det
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	acl:relcl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 plays	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plays	det
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plays	compound
9	plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	do	present	the maidens	the music plays					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Eventuality

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

Sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Sing their songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 songs	nmod:poss
3	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here	their songs					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	sing		their = they						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Comb their locks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comb	comb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 locks	nmod:poss
3	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Comb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comb	imperative	you not said here	their locks					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient

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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