Test 8 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

what did the students pay with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, pay · To what, where: students

This is test 8 · ★ 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 students	det
4	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obj
5	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 students	appos
6	with	with	ADP	_	5 pay	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the students					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent student=Eventuality
2	pay	infinitive							vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Silver coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 coin	amod
2	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A shiny silver coin from the purse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coin	det
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coin	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coin	compound
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 purse	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 purse	det
7	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coin	nmod

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

Option 3

Two silver coins and a copper button

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 coins	nummod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coins	compound
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 button	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 button	det
6	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 button	compound
7	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coins	conj

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

Option 4

Silver ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ring	amod
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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