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title: Dude, did Matte actually hear that weathercock or was he just being… — Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, did Matte actually hear that weathercock or was he just being extra? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1314 «Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more and more, then throws stones at the sea-king» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 1 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an…

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Dude, did Matte actually hear that weathercock or was he just being extra?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dude, Matte · **What happens:** do, hear, be · **To what, where:** weathercock

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1314 «Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more and more, then throws stones at the sea-king» 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/1314-pg3454-part39/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1314-pg3454-part39:t1:1
# text = Dude, did Matte actually hear that weathercock or was he just being extra?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Matte	Matte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	weathercock	weathercock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
14	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dude |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | present | Matte | that weathercock |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer weathercock=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | Matte |  |  |  |  | extra *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Extra, like always

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1314-pg3454-part39:t1:o1:1
# text = Extra, like always
1	Extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Extra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1314-pg3454-part39:t1:o2:1
# text = Extra
1	Extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Totally, dude, yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1314-pg3454-part39:t1:o3:1
# text = Totally, dude, yeah
1	Totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Kinda, honestly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1314-pg3454-part39:t1:o4:1
# text = Kinda, honestly
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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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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