Test 5 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

did the students say milk had to be skim or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: students, milk · What happens: say, have, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 students	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 students	det
3	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	9 skim	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 skim	cop
9	skim	skim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	xcomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 skim	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the students		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	milk		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	milk not said here	skim property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, not skim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 skim	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 skim	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 skim	advmod
4	skim	skim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it was skim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 skim	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 skim	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 skim	cop
5	skim	skim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					skim property	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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