Test 4 · ★ · Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the ri…

Wait, what did the giant say his name was, like, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, giant, name, his · What happens: wait, do, say, be, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 proper	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 proper	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proper	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	14 proper	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
14	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	the giant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	his name	proper property	tree rules
5	name		his = he		nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 right answer

Chin-debou Mau-giri

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 debou	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Chin	punct
3	debou	debou	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giri	compound
4	Mau	Mau	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 giri	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Mau	punct
6	giri	giri	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Chi-debou

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chi	Chi	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Chi	punct
3	debou	debou	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chi	list

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

Option 3

Chin-debou Mau-giri of the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 debou	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Chin	punct
3	debou	debou	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giri	nsubj
4	Mau	Mau	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 giri	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 giri	punct
6	giri	giri	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giri	nmod

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

Option 4

Mau-giri

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mau	Mau	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Mau	punct
3	giri	giri	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mau	list

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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