Test 10 · ★ · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

how did Charney even spot the seed, was it a big deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Charney, seed · What happens: spot, be · To what, where: seed, big deal

This is test 10 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 spot	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spot	aux
3	Charney	Charney	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spot	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 spot	advmod
5	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seed	det
7	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spot	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deal	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 deal	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 deal	nsubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 deal	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 deal	amod
13	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spot	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 spot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past · do-support	Charney	the seed					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Destination
2	is a	past	seed	a big deal					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

A small patch of grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 patch	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 patch	amod
3	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 grass	case
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 patch	nmod

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

Option 2

A bit of green sprout pushing up through a crack in the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sprout	case
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sprout	amod
5	sprout	sprout	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nmod
6	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bit	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pushing	compound:prt
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 crack	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 crack	det
10	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pushing	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push up	gerund	a bit of green sprout not said here			a crack in the wall			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through crack=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A little mound of earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mound	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mound	amod
3	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 earth	case
5	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mound	nmod

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

Option 4

A little mound of earth pushed up between two paving stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mound	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mound	amod
3	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 earth	case
5	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mound	nmod
6	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 earth	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pushed	compound:prt
8	between	between	ADP	_	11 stones	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 stones	nummod
10	paving	paving	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stones	compound
11	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push up	participle		earth not said here		two paving stones			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between stone=Destination

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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