Test 8 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an…

So Maie sank like a stone and still lived, bro?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maie · What happens: sink, live

This is test 8 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sank	advmod
2	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sank	nsubj
3	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 stone	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sank	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lived	cc
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 lived	advmod
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sank	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	vocative
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	Maie					like a stone	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	live	past	Maie not said here				still	bro vocative	vn exist-47.1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she floated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 floated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 floated	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 floated	nsubj
4	floated	float	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	float	past	she						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, sank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 sank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, she sank and never came back up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 sank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sank	nsubj
4	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 came	advmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sank	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	up	up	ADV	_	7 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	she						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not come back	past	she not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, she sank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sank	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sank	nsubj
4	sank	sink	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	sink	past	she						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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