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title: what did Maie offer Ahti back for the cow, like what? — Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did Maie offer Ahti back for the cow, like what? Test 15 · ★ 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;
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# Test 15 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

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what did Maie offer Ahti back for the cow, like what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Maie · **What happens:** offer back · **To what, where:** Ahti

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This is test 15 · ★ 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/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t15:1
# text = what did Maie offer Ahti back for the cow, like what?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Maie	Maie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer back** | past · do-support | Maie | Ahti |  |  |  | for the cow | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal ahti=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 {#o1}

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A pearl from the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t15:o1:1
# text = A pearl from the sea
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t15:o2:1
# text = The moon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A slice of the moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t15:o3:1
# text = A slice of the moon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slice** |  |  | the moon |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A cup of sea salt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t15:o4:1
# text = A cup of sea salt
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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