Test 4 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an…
Lol, who thought Prince was going to be jealous of a cow?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: think, go, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 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. 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 jealous | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 jealous | cop |
| 10 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 going | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cow | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cow | det |
| 13 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jealous | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | of a cow; jealous property | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Prince, obviously
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Prince | punct |
| 3 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 1 Prince | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Prince, obviously, since he is always jealous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 obviously | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Prince | punct |
| 3 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 obviously | punct |
| 5 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 9 jealous | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 jealous | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 jealous | cop |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 jealous | advmod |
| 9 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 obviously | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Prince | always, jealous property | tree rules |
Option 3
Everybody here, the cow included, obviously
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 included | nsubj |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Everybody | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cow | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cow | det |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Everybody | conj |
| 6 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 obviously | punct |
| 8 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 6 included | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | participle | Everybody | obviously property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The cow, honestly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cow | det |
| 2 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cow | punct |
| 4 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 2 cow | advmod |
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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