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

Mate, did the fire bloke, like, just blow a massive flame at him?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: blow · To what, where: massive flame

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 blow	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bloke	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bloke	compound
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blow	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 blow	advmod
11	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 flame	det
13	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flame	amod
14	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blow	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blow	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 blow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past · do-support		a massive flame				at Mate	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent flame=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 · ✓ the right answer

blew a flame at Makoma

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flame	det
3	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blew	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Makoma	case
5	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past		a flame		Makoma			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent flame=Patient

Option 2

he dropped his sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sack	nmod:poss
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	his sack					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme

Option 3

sent a burst of heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 burst	det
3	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sent	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 heat	case
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burst	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		a burst of heat					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burst=Theme
2	burst			heat					nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he blew a massive flame at the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flame	det
6	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flame	amod
7	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 giant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	he	a massive flame				at the giant	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent flame=Patient

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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