Test 7 · ★ · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

was the poor boy a puny kid, like skinny and weak?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: poor boy

This is test 7 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kid	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kid	det
6	puny	puny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kid	amod
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 skinny	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 skinny	case
10	skinny	skinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kid	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 weak	cc
12	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kid	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the poor boy					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

No, he was strong but his grandfather kept him home from the stone yard entirely

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 strong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 strong	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 strong	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grandfather	nmod:poss
8	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 kept	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 yard	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 yard	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 yard	compound
15	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
16	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					entirely, strong property	tree rules
2	keep	past	his grandfather		him = he			from the stone yard; home property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary from yard=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, not strong enough to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 strong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 strong	advmod
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 strong	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 strong	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	to-infinitive							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he was too weak to lift stone or do any heavy work in the yard

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 weak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 weak	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 weak	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 weak	advmod
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lift	mark
8	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 weak	advcl
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lift	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 do	cc
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lift	conj
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 work	det
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 work	amod
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 yard	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 yard	det
17	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		weak property	tree rules
2	lift	to-infinitive	he not said here	stone		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	do	infinitive	he not said here	any heavy work	in the yard	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, too frail for hard work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 frail	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 frail	advmod
4	frail	frail	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 work	case
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 work	amod
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frail	obl

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

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