Test 15 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

what did Maie offer Ahti back for the cow, like what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Maie · What happens: offer back · To what, where: Ahti

This is test 15 · ★ 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 offer	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offer	aux
3	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 offer	nsubj
4	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 offer	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 offer	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 cow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offer	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cow	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 offer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer back	past · do-support	Maie	Ahti				for the cow	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal ahti=Theme

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 pearl from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pearl	det
2	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pearl	nmod

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

Option 2

The moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

A slice of the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 slice	det
2	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moon	det
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slice	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slice			the moon					nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

A cup of sea salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cup	det
2	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 salt	case
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 salt	compound
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cup	nmod

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

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