Test 12 · ★ · Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the ri…

Right, who gave Makoma the fire power he used on the hair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Makoma · What happens: give, use · To what, where: fire power, Makoma, hair

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1136 «Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the river spirit, then is sent to find Sakatirina» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 power	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 power	compound
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 used	nsubj
10	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 power	acl:relcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 hair	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hair	det
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		the fire power	Makoma				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent makoma=Recipient power=Theme
2	use	past	Makoma	the fire power not said here		the hair			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

the river giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 giant	compound
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the forest spirit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spirit	det
2	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spirit	compound
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the spirits of his fathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spirits	det
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fathers	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fathers	nmod:poss
5	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spirits	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the flame-spirit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spirit	det
2	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spirit	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 flame	punct
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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