--- title: On which day of the week did the couple's transgression take place? — Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Ma… · tree and pragmatics description: On which day of the week did the couple's transgression take place? Exam question 2 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 a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1313-pg3454-part38/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Ma…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1313-pg3454-part38/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king… On which day of the week did the couple's transgression take place? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** couple · **What happens:** do, take, transgress · **To what, where:** transgression, place This is exam question 2 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/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e2:1 # text = On which day of the week did the couple's transgression take place? 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 transgression transgression NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 13 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the couple's transgression | | | day | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transgression=Eventuality | | 2 | **take** | infinitive | | place | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 3 | **transgress** | | the couple | | | | | | nom transgression «act intransitive»: poss=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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The Sunday of the big storm ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e2:o1:1 # text = The Sunday of the big storm 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Saturday evening after the church bells ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e2:o2:1 # text = Saturday evening after the church bells 1 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 bells bell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Monday ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e2:o3:1 # text = Monday 1 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Sunday ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e2:o4:1 # text = Sunday 1 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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