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title: Which nail-hammering habit keeps fingers safest? — Building and making things safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Which nail-hammering habit keeps fingers safest? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 244 «Building and making things safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Building and making things safely

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Which nail-hammering habit keeps fingers safest?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:244-building-and-making-things:t7:1
# text = Which nail-hammering habit keeps fingers safest?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hammering	hammer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 {#o1}

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Hitting as hard as possible right from the very start

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:244-building-and-making-things:t7:o1:1
# text = Hitting as hard as possible right from the very start
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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Light taps first, then fingers away once it stands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:244-building-and-making-things:t7:o2:1
# text = Light taps first, then fingers away once it stands
1	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	taps	tap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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Holding the nail with your whole hand around it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:244-building-and-making-things:t7:o3:1
# text = Holding the nail with your whole hand around it
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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Holding the nail at the very top

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:244-building-and-making-things:t7:o4:1
# text = Holding the nail at the very top
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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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**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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