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title: «that anchor's just a big hook, weighs like a bike, right» How heavy… — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics
description: «that anchor's just a big hook, weighs like a bike, right» How heavy can a giant ship's anchor be? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 24 «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Test 8 · ★ · Ships, ports and submarines

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«that anchor's just a big hook, weighs like a bike, right» How heavy can a giant ship's anchor be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big hook, anchor · **What happens:** weigh, be

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 24 «Ships, ports and submarines» of the technology 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/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t8:1
# text = «that anchor's just a big hook, weighs like a bike, right» How heavy can a giant ship's anchor be?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	right	right	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh** *in a quote* | present | that anchor's big hook |  |  |  |  | like a bike | tree rules |
| 2 | **can** | can | a giant ship's anchor |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Heavier than ten cars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t8:o1:1
# text = Heavier than ten cars
1	Heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About as heavy as one bike

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t8:o2:1
# text = About as heavy as one bike
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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About as heavy as one family car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t8:o3:1
# text = About as heavy as one family car
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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About as heavy as a school bag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t8:o4:1
# text = About as heavy as a school bag
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

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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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