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description: Which action of Charney's indicates his compassion toward the emergent plant? Exam question 4 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, with the depen
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# Exam question 4 · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

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Which action of Charney's indicates his compassion toward the emergent plant?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** action, Charney · **What happens:** indicate, act · **To what, where:** compassion

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This is exam question 4 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, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/360-pg18442-part20/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:e4:1
# text = Which action of Charney's indicates his compassion toward the emergent plant?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Charney	Charney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	indicates	indicate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	emergent	emergent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indicate** | present | which action of Charney | action's compassion |  |  |  | toward the emergent plant | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot compassion=Topic |
| 2 | **act** |  | Charney |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He watered it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:e4:o1:1
# text = He watered it
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watered	water	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **water** | past | He | it |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He watched it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:e4:o2:1
# text = He watched it
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | He | it |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He protected it from the guards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:e4:o3:1
# text = He protected it from the guards
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	protected	protect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | past | He | it |  |  |  | from the guards | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from guard=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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He refrained from crushing it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:e4:o4:1
# text = He refrained from crushing it
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refrained	refrain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	crushing	crush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refrain** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **crush** | gerund | He *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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**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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