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title: what do the maidens do when the music plays? — Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: what do the maidens do when the music plays? Test 12 · ★ 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 of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 12 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

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what do the maidens do when the music plays?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** maidens · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** music plays

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t12:1
# text = what do the maidens do when the music plays?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | the maidens | the music plays |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Eventuality |

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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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Sing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t12:o1:1
# text = Sing
1	Sing	sing	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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Sing their songs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t12:o2:1
# text = Sing their songs
1	Sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* | their songs |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t12:o3:1
# text = Dance
1	Dance	dance	NOUN	NN	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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Comb their locks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t12:o4:1
# text = Comb their locks
1	Comb	comb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comb** | imperative | you *not said here* | their locks |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient |

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**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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