Test 9 · ★ · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

was Charney's plant just dead, like nothing to see?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, see · To what, where: plant

This is test 9 · ★ 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 plant	cop
2	Charney	Charney	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 plant	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Charney	case
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	csubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nothing	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 dead	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 nothing	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Charney's plant					tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

It was growing stronger each day, with two new leaves and a stem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 growing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 growing	aux
3	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 growing	xcomp
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 growing	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leaves	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 leaves	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 leaves	nummod
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 leaves	amod
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 growing	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stem	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stem	det
14	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	It				day	with two new leaves and a stem; strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was growing stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 growing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 growing	aux
3	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 growing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	It					strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It had died in the night and was lying flat on the paving stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 died	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	aux
3	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lying	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lying	aux
9	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 died	conj
10	flat	flat	ADV	_	9 lying	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 stones	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stones	det
13	paving	paving	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stones	compound
14	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	It				night		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	lie	past · progressive				the paving stones		flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location

Option 4

It was growing weaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 growing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 growing	aux
3	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 growing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	It					weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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