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title: why did Matte not wanna go out? — Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: why did Matte not wanna go out? Test 14 · ★ 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 choice was wro
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# Test 14 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

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why did Matte not wanna go out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Matte · **What happens:** not go out

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This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t14:1
# text = why did Matte not wanna go out?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	Matte	Matte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	wanna	wanna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go out** | past · do-support | Matte |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Because it was the Saturday night and the church bells rang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t14:o1:1
# text = Because it was the Saturday night and the church bells rang
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | the Saturday night and the church bells |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ring** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cause it was Saturday night and he had promised Maie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t14:o2:1
# text = Cause it was Saturday night and he had promised Maie
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	Maie	Maie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  | cause Saturday night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | he | Saturday night *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent night=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Cause it was Saturday night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t14:o3:1
# text = Cause it was Saturday night
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  | cause Saturday night |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Because it was Sunday morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t14:o4:1
# text = Because it was Sunday morning
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | Sunday morning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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