--- title: Oi, so who's the bloke who keeps saying he's "greater" every five mi… — Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma bea… · tree and pragmatics description: Oi, so who's the bloke who keeps saying he's "greater" every five minutes? Test 1 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1136-pg3027-part2/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma bea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1136-pg3027-part2/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the ri… Oi, so who's the bloke who keeps saying he's "greater" every five minutes? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oi, bloke, he · **What happens:** be, keep, say · **To what, where:** bloke · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 1 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1136-pg3027-part2/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1136-pg3027-part2:t1:1 # text = Oi, so who's the bloke who keeps saying he's "greater" every five minutes? 1 Oi oi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bloke bloke NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 17 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Oi | the bloke | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present | the bloke | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the bloke *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | he | | | | minute | great *property* | tree rules | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Oi ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1136-pg3027-part2:t1:o1:1 # text = Oi 1 Oi Oi X FW Foreign=Yes 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the bloke Chi-gwisa-miti ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1136-pg3027-part2:t1:o2:1 # text = the bloke Chi-gwisa-miti 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bloke bloke NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 Chi Chi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 gwisa gwisa NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 miti miti NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1136-pg3027-part2:t1:o3:1 # text = Bruv 1 Bruv Bruv PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Makoma ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1136-pg3027-part2:t1:o4:1 # text = Makoma 1 Makoma Makoma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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. 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