Exam question 4 · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an…

Determine the outcome of the sea-king's question regarding the gold and silver promised to him by the wife.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, outcome, sea king · What happens: determine, regard, promise, question · To what, where: outcome, king

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outcome	det
3	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	10 question	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 king	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sea	punct
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 question	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 promised	obl
11	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 gold	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gold	det
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 question	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 silver	cc
15	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gold	conj
16	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 outcome	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 promised	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 wife	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wife	det
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 promised	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the outcome			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outcome=Topic
2	regard	gerund					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	promise speech: promise	past	the outcome not said here		king	of the sea king's question regard the gold and silver; by the wife	vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	question		the sea king			regard the gold and silver	nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent regard=obl

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

He got the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	the gold					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She paid him in silver and he left happily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 silver	case
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paid	conj
9	happily	happily	ADV	_	8 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	She	him = he		silver			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset
2	leave	past	he					happily property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The gold was given to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gold	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		the gold	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The question remains unanswered in this part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remains	nsubj
3	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	unanswered	unanswered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remains	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 part	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 part	det
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remains	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	the question			this part		unanswered property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location

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