Test 7 · ★★ · Building and making things safely

Which nail-hammering habit keeps fingers safest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nail · What happens: hammer, keep · To what, where: habit, fingers

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 244 «Building and making things safely» of the everyday 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 nail	det
2	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 nail	punct
4	hammering	hammer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 nail	acl
5	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hammering	obj
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keeps	obj
8	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 fingers	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hammer	gerund	which nail not said here	habit					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Patient
2	keep	present	which nail	fingers					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=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

Hitting as hard as possible right from the very start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 hard	advmod
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Hitting	advmod
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 right	case
5	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 right	amod
6	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hitting	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 start	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 start	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 start	advmod
10	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	gerund				the start		as possible right; hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Light taps first, then fingers away once it stands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taps	compound
2	taps	tap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 taps	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fingers	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fingers	advmod
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taps	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 fingers	advmod
8	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 stands	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stands	nsubj
10	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 taps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	it						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Holding the nail with your whole hand around it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nail	det
3	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 hand	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obl
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Holding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		the nail		hand		with your whole hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nail=Theme around it=Location

Option 4

Holding the nail at the very top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nail	det
3	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 top	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 top	advmod
7	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Holding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		the nail		the top			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nail=Theme at top=Location

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