Test 5 · ★ · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

so the grandpa was like the big boss stone guy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandpa · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	10 guy	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grandpa	det
3	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 guy	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	10 guy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guy	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 guy	amod
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stone	compound
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 guy	compound
10	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 guy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the grandpa					like the big stone guy	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 farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

He ran the big marble quarry and taught the whole village how to carve

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 quarry	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quarry	amod
5	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quarry	amod
6	quarry	quarry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 taught	cc
8	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 village	amod
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taught	obj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 carve	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 carve	mark
14	carve	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	run	past	He	the big marble quarry	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quarry=Trajectory
2	teach speech: other	past	He not said here	the whole village	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent village=Recipient
3	carve	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He was a stone mason

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	5 mason	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mason	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mason	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mason	compound
5	mason	mason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a stone mason					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was a stone-cutter

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	6 cutter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cutter	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cutter	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cutter	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 stone	punct
6	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a stone cutter					tree rules

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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