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

wait, what did the students want to eat?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, students · What happens: wait, do, want, eat

This is test 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. 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 students	det
6	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		tree rules
3	want	present	the students	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the students not said here	vn eat-39.1-1 «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

Fresh cod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cod	amod
2	cod	cod	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Salt herring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 herring	compound
2	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

Smoked herring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoked	smoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 herring	amod
2	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	participle							vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Smoked herring and some fresh bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoked	smoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 herring	amod
2	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bread	cc
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 bread	det
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bread	amod
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 herring	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	participle							vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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