--- title: wait, what did the students want to eat? — Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Ma… · tree and pragmatics description: wait, what did the students want to eat? Test 4 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1313-pg3454-part38/t4/) [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/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king… wait, what did the students want to eat? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, students · **What happens:** wait, do, want, eat This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t4:1 # text = wait, what did the students want to eat? 1 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 students student NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **want** | present | the students | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the students *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1} Fresh cod ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t4:o1:1 # text = Fresh cod 1 Fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cod cod NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Salt herring ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t4:o2:1 # text = Salt herring 1 Salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 herring herring NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Smoked herring ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t4:o3:1 # text = Smoked herring 1 Smoked smoke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 herring herring NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smoke** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Smoked herring and some fresh bread ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t4:o4:1 # text = Smoked herring and some fresh bread 1 Smoked smoke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 herring herring NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 5 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smoke** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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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