Test 7 · ★ · Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the ri…

Why's his hammer such a big deal, like, what does it actually do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hammer, deal · What happens: be, do · To what, where: hammer

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hammer	nmod:poss
4	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 deal	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 deal	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hammer	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	4 hammer	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	actually	actually	ADV	_	16 do	advmod
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hammer	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	his hammer and such big deal					why property	tree rules
2	do	present · do-support	deal	his hammer and such big deal				actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

it's just a hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hammer	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hammer	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 hammer	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hammer	det
5	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a hammer					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

knocks giants flat in one hit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 knocks	obj
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 knocks	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hit	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hit	nummod
6	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 knocks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	present		giants		one hit		flat property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent giant=Theme in hit=Destination

Option 3

it smashes trees in half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smashes	nsubj
2	smashes	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smashes	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 half	case
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 smashes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	present	it	trees		half			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in half=Destination

Option 4

it crushes stone walls down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crushes	nsubj
2	crushes	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walls	compound
4	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crushes	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 crushes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush down	present	it	stone walls				down property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument wall=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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