Test 2 · ★ · Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa…

Bruv, what did Makoma smash the giant's leg with?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Makoma · What happens: smash · To what, where: leg

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1137 «Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa frees a python king and is promised a reward» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 smash	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 smash	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smash	aux
5	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 smash	nsubj
6	smash	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leg	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 giant	case
10	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smash	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	6 smash	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 smash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past · do-support	Makoma	the giant's leg				Bruv vocative	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Destination leg=Theme

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

his mate Mulimo, the wooden club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	Mulimo	Mulimo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mate	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 club	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 club	det
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 club	amod
7	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mate	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

his mate Nu-endo, the iron hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 endo	compound
3	Nu	Nu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mate	appos
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Nu	punct
5	endo	endo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hammer	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hammer	det
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hammer	compound
9	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 endo	conj

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

Option 3

his big iron hammer they called Nu-endo, which he'd nicked from the giant's cave

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hammer	nmod:poss
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hammer	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hammer	compound
4	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	nsubj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Nu	Nu	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 endo	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Nu	punct
9	endo	endo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nicked	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 nicked	nsubj:pass
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 nicked	nsubj
13	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 nicked	aux
14	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 endo	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	19 cave	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cave	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 giant	case
19	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	his big iron hammer	Nu endo					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent endo=Recipient
2	nick	past · perfect · passive		Nu endo		the giant's cave			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from cave=Source

Option 4

his mate Nu-endo, the iron hammer his dad forged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hammer	nsubj
3	Nu	Nu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mate	appos
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Nu	punct
5	endo	endo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mate	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hammer	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 iron	det
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hammer	nsubj
9	hammer	ham	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dad	nmod:poss
11	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hammer	obj
12	forged	forge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hammer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ham	past	his mate and endo	iron's dad					tree rules
2	forge	past	his mate and endo not said here						vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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