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title: so the grandpa was like the big boss stone guy? — Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the grandpa was like the big boss stone guy? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 5 · ★ · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

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so the grandpa was like the big boss stone guy?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/360-pg18442-part20/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:t5:1
# text = so the grandpa was like the big boss stone guy?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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A farmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:t5:o1:1
# text = A farmer
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:t5:o2:1
# text = He ran the big marble quarry and taught the whole village how to carve
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	quarry	quarry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	carve	carve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 {#o3}

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He was a stone mason

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:t5:o3:1
# text = He was a stone mason
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mason	mason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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He was a stone-cutter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:360-pg18442-part20:t5:o4:1
# text = He was a stone-cutter
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	cutter	cutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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