Test 9 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

what did Prince do when the boat left, so sad?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince, boat · What happens: do, leave

This is test 9 · ★ 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 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 left	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boat	det
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 do	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sad	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 sad	advmod
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 do	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Prince						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	leave	participle	the boat						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Whined on the shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whined	whine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 shore	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shore	det
4	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Whined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whine	participle				the shore			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Howled at the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Howled	howl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 sea	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Howled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	participle						at the sea	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at sea=Stimulus

Option 3

Ran off the rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	4 rock	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rock	det
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	participle		the rock					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Trajectory

Option 4

Barked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	participle							vn animal_sounds-38 «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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