--- title: what's the deal with the old hacks, are they dead good? — Grimm, Strong Hans, part 20: Hans eats… · tree and pragmatics description: what's the deal with the old hacks, are they dead good? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1631 «Grimm, Strong Hans, part 20: Hans eats enormously, breaks the iron staffs, and threshes the squire's grain» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1631-pg5615-part20/t7/) [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/) / [Grimm, Strong Hans, part 20: Hans eats…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1631-pg5615-part20/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Grimm, Strong Hans, part 20: Hans eats enormously, breaks… what's the deal with the old hacks, are they dead good? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** deal, hacks · **What happens:** be This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1631 «Grimm, Strong Hans, part 20: Hans eats enormously, breaks the iron staffs, and threshes the squire's grain» 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/1631-pg5615-part20/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1631-pg5615-part20:t7:1 # text = what's the deal with the old hacks, are they dead good? 1 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 hacks hack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the deal with the old hacks | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | hacks *= hack* | | | | | good *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} yeah they're lovely young horses ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1631-pg5615-part20:t7:o1:1 # text = yeah they're lovely young horses 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | they | lovely young horses | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} yeah they're fast horses but the cart's the knackered bit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1631-pg5615-part20:t7:o2:1 # text = yeah they're fast horses but the cart's the knackered bit 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 knackered knackered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | they | fast horses but the knackered bit | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the cart | the knackered bit | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} nah they're knackered old horses that can barely pull ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1631-pg5615-part20:t7:o3:1 # text = nah they're knackered old horses that can barely pull 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 knackered knackered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 barely barely ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | they | knackered old horses | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pull** | can | knackered old horses | | | | | barely *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} nah they're knackered old horses ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1631-pg5615-part20:t7:o4:1 # text = nah they're knackered old horses 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 knackered knackered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | they | knackered old horses | | | | | tree rules | **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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