--- title: Wait, so the cow just ate seaweed and nobody paid for it? — Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39… · tree and pragmatics description: Wait, so the cow just ate seaweed and nobody paid for it? Test 3 · ★ 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 question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1314-pg3454-part39/t3/) [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, Matte and Maie, part 39…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1314-pg3454-part39/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an… Wait, so the cow just ate seaweed and nobody paid for it? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, cow, nobody · **What happens:** wait, eat, pay · **To what, where:** seaweed This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1314-pg3454-part39:t3:1 # text = Wait, so the cow just ate seaweed and nobody paid for it? 1 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 seaweed seaweed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 nsubj _ _ 11 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? 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 | **eat** | past | the cow | seaweed | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient | | 3 | **pay** | past | nobody | | | | | for seaweed | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | 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} Pretty much, yeah ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1314-pg3454-part39:t3:o1:1 # text = Pretty much, yeah 1 Pretty pretty ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 much much ADV RB _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yup, free snacks ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1314-pg3454-part39:t3:o2:1 # text = Yup, free snacks 1 Yup yup NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 snacks snack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Yup, the cow ate free seaweed all week long ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1314-pg3454-part39:t3:o3:1 # text = Yup, the cow ate free seaweed all week long 1 Yup yup NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 seaweed seaweed NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | Yup | free seaweed | | | week | long *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nope ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1314-pg3454-part39:t3:o4:1 # text = Nope 1 Nope nope INTJ UH _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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