Test 3 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an…

Wait, so the cow just ate seaweed and nobody paid for it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cow, nobody · What happens: wait, eat, pay · To what, where: seaweed

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 ate	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 ate	advmod
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 paid	cc
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 paid	nsubj
11	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ate	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 paid	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	the cow	seaweed		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient
3	pay	past	nobody		for seaweed	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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

Pretty much, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
4	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 much	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yup, free snacks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snacks	punct
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snacks	amod
4	snacks	snack	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Yup	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yup, the cow ate free seaweed all week long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cow	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seaweed	amod
7	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 week	det
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obl:unmarked
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Yup	free seaweed			week	long property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient

Option 4

Nope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	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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