Exam question 2 · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an…
Identify the character who was struck on the cheek by a stone during the disturbance caused by Maie's boat.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, stone · What happens: identify, strike, cause · To what, where: character, disturbance
This is exam question 2 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 character | det |
| 3 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | aux:pass |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 character | acl:relcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 cheek | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cheek | det |
| 9 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 13 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 disturbance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 disturbance | det |
| 15 | disturbance | disturbance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 16 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 disturbance | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 boat | case |
| 18 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 boat | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Maie | case |
| 20 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caused | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the character | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | past · passive | a stone | the character | during the disturbance | on the cheek | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument on cheek=Patient | ||
| 3 | cause | participle | the disturbance not said here | by Maie's boat | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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 steamer captain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 captain | det |
| 2 | steamer | steamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 captain | compound |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The sea queen Wellamos and her two daughters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | compound |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Wellamos | Wellamos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 daughters | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 daughters | nummod |
| 8 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Wellamos | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The sea queen Wellamos
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | compound |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Wellamos | Wellamos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The sea-king Ahti, who had lost his beard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sea | punct |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Ahti | Ahti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 king | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lost | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lost | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lost | aux |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 king | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 beard | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect | the sea king | Ahti's beard | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Eventuality |
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