Exam question 4 · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

Which action of Charney's indicates his compassion toward the emergent plant?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action, Charney · What happens: indicate, act · To what, where: compassion

This is exam question 4 of lesson 360 «Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 indicates	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Charney	case
4	Charney	Charney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 action	nmod
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Charney	case
6	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 compassion	nmod:poss
8	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 indicates	obj
9	toward	toward	ADP	_	12 plant	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plant	det
11	emergent	emergent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plant	amod
12	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 indicates	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 indicates	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	present	which action of Charney	action's compassion				toward the emergent plant	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot compassion=Topic
2	act		Charney						nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

He watered it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watered	nsubj
2	watered	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	water	past	He	it					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

Option 2

He watched it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watched	nsubj
2	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	He	it					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

He protected it from the guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 protected	nsubj
2	protected	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 protected	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 guards	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guards	det
6	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	past	He	it				from the guards	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from guard=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He refrained from crushing it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refrained	nsubj
2	refrained	refrain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	4 crushing	mark
4	crushing	crush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 refrained	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refrain	past	He						vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	crush	gerund	He not said here	it					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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