Exam question 2 · Finnish Fairy Tales, The Raspberry Worm, part 1: two girls…

Which superstition did Matte invoke regarding fishing upon a Sunday?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: superstition · What happens: invoke, regard

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1315 «Finnish Fairy Tales, The Raspberry Worm, part 1: two girls save a worm, get lost in a burnt wood, and are fed by magic» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 superstition	det
2	superstition	superstition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invoke	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 invoke	aux
4	Matte	Matte	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 invoke	nsubj
5	invoke	invoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fishing	case
7	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invoke	obl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Sunday	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Sunday	det
10	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fishing	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 invoke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invoke	past · do-support	which superstition					regard fishing upon a Sunday	tree rules
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

That good luck never attends Sunday fishing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 luck	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 luck	amod
3	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 attends	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 attends	advmod
5	attends	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fishing	compound
7	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 attends	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not attend	present	that good luck	Sunday fishing					vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fishing=Goal

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That whoever fishes on Sunday will lose the boat and the nets in the storm

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 fishes	nsubj
2	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 fishes	nsubj
3	fishes	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 lose	mark
5	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lose	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lose	aux
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fishes	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boat	det
9	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nets	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nets	det
12	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 boat	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 storm	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 storm	det
15	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fish	present	That						tree rules
2	lose	future	Sunday	the boat and the nets		the storm			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Eventuality

Option 3

That Sunday fishing brings no catch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 fishing	det
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fishing	compound
3	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brings	nsubj
4	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 catch	det
6	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	that Sunday fishing	no catch					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent catch=Theme

Option 4

That good luck never attends Sunday fishing, and the church bell will ring for the sinners

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 luck	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 luck	amod
3	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 attends	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 attends	advmod
5	attends	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fishing	compound
7	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 attends	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ring	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ring	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bell	det
11	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bell	compound
12	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ring	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 ring	aux
14	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 attends	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 sinners	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sinners	det
17	sinners	sinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not attend	present	that good luck	Sunday fishing					vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fishing=Goal
2	ring	future	the church bell					for the sinners	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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