Test 7 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an…

Wait, why did Ahti's beard get cut up like a bad haircut?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, cut up · To what, where: beard

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	9 cut	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 cut	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux
5	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 beard	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Ahti	case
7	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	nsubj:pass
8	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux:pass
9	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 haircut	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 haircut	det
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 haircut	amod
14	haircut	haircut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut up	past · passive · do-support		Ahti's beard				like a bad haircut	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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

A rock hit it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	nsubj
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a rock	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He fell down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	He					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A big rock hit it while he was angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rock	amod
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 angry	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 angry	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 angry	cop
9	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a big rock	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	is	past	rock					angry property	tree rules

Option 4

He got into a fight with the sea-king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 fight	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fight	det
5	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 king	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 king	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sea	punct
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He			a fight		with the sea king	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into fight=Destination

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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