Test 8 · ★ · Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla…

Ayo, why did the merchant have a big party?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ayo, merchant · What happens: do, have · To what, where: big party

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 678 «Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla and becomes a scullion» 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	Ayo	Ayo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ayo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 party	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 party	amod
10	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ayo						tree rules
2	have	present	the merchant	a big party					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient

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

Because he wanted to show off his rich new house and wealth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 show	mark
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 show	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 house	nmod:poss
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wealth	cc
12	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	show off not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	his rich new house and wealth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

For his baby's christening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	5 christening	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 baby	nmod:poss
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 christening	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 baby	case
5	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	christen		his baby						nom christening «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

For his son's wedding day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	6 day	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 son	case
5	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	compound
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To celebrate his baby getting christened, plus make business friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 celebrate	mark
2	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 baby	nmod:poss
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 celebrate	obj
5	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 baby	acl
6	christened	christen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 getting	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
8	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	9 make	cc
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 celebrate	advcl
10	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 friends	compound
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	celebrate	to-infinitive		his baby	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
2	get	gerund	his baby not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	christen	participle	his baby not said here		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	make	infinitive		business friends	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product

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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