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title: Which superstition did Matte invoke regarding fishing upon a Sunday? — Finnish Fairy Tales, The Raspberry Wor… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which superstition did Matte invoke regarding fishing upon a Sunday? Exam question 2 of lesson 1315 «Finnish Fairy Tales, The Raspberry Worm, part 1: two girls save a worm, get lost in a burnt wood, and are fed by magic» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 2 · Finnish Fairy Tales, The Raspberry Worm, part 1: two girls…

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Which superstition did Matte invoke regarding fishing upon a Sunday?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** superstition · **What happens:** invoke, regard

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1315 «Finnish Fairy Tales, The Raspberry Worm, part 1: two girls save a worm, get lost in a burnt wood, and are fed by magic» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1315-pg3454-part40/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1315-pg3454-part40:e2:1
# text = Which superstition did Matte invoke regarding fishing upon a Sunday?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	superstition	superstition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Matte	Matte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	invoke	invoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	case	_	_
7	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invoke** | past · do-support | which superstition |  |  |  |  | regard fishing upon a Sunday | tree rules |
| 2 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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That good luck never attends Sunday fishing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1315-pg3454-part40:e2:o1:1
# text = That good luck never attends Sunday fishing
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	attends	attend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **attend** | present | that good luck | Sunday fishing |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fishing=Goal |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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That whoever fishes on Sunday will lose the boat and the nets in the storm

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1315-pg3454-part40:e2:o2:1
# text = That whoever fishes on Sunday will lose the boat and the nets in the storm
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fishes	fish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fish** | present | That |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | future | Sunday | the boat and the nets |  | the storm |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That Sunday fishing brings no catch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1315-pg3454-part40:e2:o3:1
# text = That Sunday fishing brings no catch
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | that Sunday fishing | no catch |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent catch=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That good luck never attends Sunday fishing, and the church bell will ring for the sinners

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1315-pg3454-part40:e2:o4:1
# text = That good luck never attends Sunday fishing, and the church bell will ring for the sinners
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	attends	attend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sinners	sinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **attend** | present | that good luck | Sunday fishing |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fishing=Goal |
| 2 | **ring** | future | the church bell |  |  |  |  | for the sinners | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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