Test 12 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an…

Bro, did the fiddler stop fiddling when the stones flew?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fiddler, stones · What happens: stop, fiddle, fly

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fiddler	det
5	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	nsubj
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fiddling	fiddle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 flew	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stones	det
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flew	nsubj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fiddling	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	past · do-support	the fiddler	Bro vocative	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	fiddle	gerund	the fiddler not said here		vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	fly	past	the stones		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he kept going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	go	gerund	he not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he kept fiddling right through all the chaos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fiddling	fiddle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	right	right	ADV	_	5 fiddling	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 chaos	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 chaos	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chaos	det
10	chaos	chaos	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fiddling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	fiddle	gerund	he not said here			all chaos		right property	vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, he stopped right when the first stone hit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 stopped	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 hit	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hit	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 hit	amod
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hit	compound
10	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he	the first stone hit				right property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Yeah, he stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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