Test 1 · ★ · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

bro, the Casabianca kid just stood there while the ship was on fire, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, ship · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: fire

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kid	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kid	det
4	Casabianca	Casabianca	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kid	compound
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	conj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 stood	advmod
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 stood	advmod
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 fire	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fire	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fire	cop
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 fire	case
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fire	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	7 stood	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	bro and the Casabianca kid			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the ship			fire			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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he stayed right there on the deck, no cap, even when it blew up

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stayed	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 deck	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deck	det
9	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cap	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deck	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 blew	punct
14	even	even	ADV	_	17 blew	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 blew	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 blew	nsubj
17	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 blew	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he			the deck; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=Location
2	blow up	past	cap						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, he left the deck, ya

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deck	det
6	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
8	ya	ya	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	the deck					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deck=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he stayed put, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux:pass
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		he				no cap obl	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

Option 4

Yeah, he ran off, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	he	no cap					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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