Test 6 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an…
Yo, what did Maie sing to the sea-king to get cows?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maie · What happens: sing, get · To what, where: sea king, cows
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 6 sing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 sing | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sing | aux |
| 5 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | nsubj |
| 6 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sea | punct |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sing | advcl |
| 14 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 get | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 sing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · do-support | Maie | the sea king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to king=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Maie not said here | cows | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus |
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
A long slow ballad about cows and the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ballad | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ballad | amod |
| 3 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ballad | amod |
| 4 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 cows | case |
| 6 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ballad | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sea | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cows | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A little banger for Ahti
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 banger | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 banger | amod |
| 3 | banger | banger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Ahti | case |
| 5 | Ahti | Ahti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 banger | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A cute lullaby for kids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lullaby | det |
| 2 | cute | cute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lullaby | amod |
| 3 | lullaby | lullaby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 kids | case |
| 5 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lullaby | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A wild tune for the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tune | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tune | amod |
| 3 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tune | nmod |
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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