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title: Which figure is described as the ruler of the submarine dominion? — Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which figure is described as the ruler of the submarine dominion? Exam question 1 of lesson 1313 «Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king for a cow and they break Sunday rest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 1 · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

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Which figure is described as the ruler of the submarine dominion?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ruler · **What happens:** describe · **To what, where:** figure

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1313 «Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king for a cow and they break Sunday rest» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1313-pg3454-part38/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e1:1
# text = Which figure is described as the ruler of the submarine dominion?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	submarine	submarine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	dominion	dominion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive | the ruler of the submarine dominion | which figure |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ilo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e1:o1:1
# text = Ilo
1	Ilo	ilo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Aho

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e1:o2:1
# text = Aho
1	Aho	Aho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Antti

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e1:o3:1
# text = Antti
1	Antti	Antti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Ahti

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e1:o4:1
# text = Ahti
1	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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