Exam question 1 · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an…

Which of the following is the correct reason that the fisherman's wife sailed out to sea with stones?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: follow, be, sail out · To what, where: sea

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1314 «Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more and more, then throws stones at the sea-king» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 reason	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	8 reason	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reason	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 reason	case
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 reason	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reason	det
7	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reason	amod
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 sailed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fisherman	det
11	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wife	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 fisherman	case
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sailed	nsubj
14	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reason	advcl
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 sailed	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 sea	case
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sailed	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 stones	case
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sailed	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present			of the correct reason	tree rules
3	sail out	past	the fisherman's wife	sea	with stones; out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to sea=Trajectory

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

To fill the sea with stones and enlarge the island for cows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fill	mark
2	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fill	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 stones	case
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fill	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 enlarge	cc
8	enlarge	enlarge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 fill	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 island	det
10	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enlarge	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 cows	case
12	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 island	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	to-infinitive		the sea				with stones	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sea=Patient with stone=Instrument
2	enlarge	infinitive		the island				for cows	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent island=Patient

Option 2

To fill the sea and enlarge the island so her husband can fish in peace

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fill	mark
2	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fill	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 enlarge	cc
6	enlarge	enlarge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 fill	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enlarge	obj
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 fish	mark
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fish	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fish	aux
13	fish	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fill	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 peace	case
15	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fill	to-infinitive		the sea		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient
2	enlarge	infinitive		the island		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent island=Patient
3	fish	can	her husband		peace	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To fill the sea and enlarge the island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fill	mark
2	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fill	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 enlarge	cc
6	enlarge	enlarge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 fill	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enlarge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	to-infinitive		the sea					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sea=Patient
2	enlarge	infinitive		the island					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent island=Patient

Option 4

To fish for the sea-king's gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fish	mark
2	fish	fish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	9 gold	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 king	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sea	punct
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gold	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fish	to-infinitive						for the sea king's gold	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for gold=Theme

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