Test 11 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an…
Dude, what did the sea-king say he'd really like from Maie?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: do, say, like · To what, where: sea king, Maie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dude | acl:relcl |
| 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 | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 11 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 like | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 say | ccomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Maie | case |
| 15 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 like | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dude | the sea king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Dude | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | like | would | Dude | Maie | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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
The gold and silver
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 | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 silver | cc |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The gold and silver she had hidden away
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 | 7 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 silver | cc |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gold | conj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hidden | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hidden | aux |
| 7 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 hidden | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide away | past · perfect · passive | the gold and silver | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
A big pot of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pot | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pot | amod |
| 3 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pot | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The golden crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crown | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crown | amod |
| 3 | crown | crown | 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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