Test 14 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

why did Matte not wanna go out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Matte · What happens: not go out

This is test 14 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
3	Matte	Matte	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
5	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 go	dep
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go out	past · do-support	Matte					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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

Because it was the Saturday night and the church bells rang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 night	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 night	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 night	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
5	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 night	compound
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rang	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bells	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bells	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bells	compound
10	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 night	conj
11	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the Saturday night and the church bells					tree rules
2	ring	past							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cause it was Saturday night and he had promised Maie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 night	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 night	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 night	cop
4	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 night	compound
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 night	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 promised	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 promised	aux
9	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 night	acl:relcl
10	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 promised	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it				cause Saturday night		tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	he	Saturday night not said here					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent night=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cause it was Saturday night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 night	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 night	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 night	cop
4	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 night	compound
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it				cause Saturday night		tree rules

Option 4

Because it was Sunday morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 morning	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 morning	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 morning	cop
4	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 morning	compound
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	Sunday morning					tree rules

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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