Test 5 · ★ · Butterflies, moths and ladybirds

«caught a butterfly, its wing rubbed off on my fingers like glitter» What has happened?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: catch, rub off, happen · To what, where: butterfly, wing, fingers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 219 «Butterflies, moths and ladybirds» of the biology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 butterfly	det
4	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wing	punct
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wing	nmod:poss
7	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 butterfly	appos
8	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wing	acl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 rubbed	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 fingers	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fingers	nmod:poss
12	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rubbed	obl
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 glitter	case
14	glitter	glitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fingers	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happened	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 happened	aux
18	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 caught	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	catch in a quote	past	a butterfly		tree rules
2	rub off in a quote	participle	butterfly's wing not said here	my fingers like glitter	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on finger=Destination
3	happen	present · perfect			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nothing, butterflies want to lose that powder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 butterflies	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lose	mark
6	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 powder	det
8	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Nothing butterflies						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	lose not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nothing butterflies not said here	that powder					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent powder=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Scales came off, which can harm the butterfly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 harm	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 harm	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 harm	aux
7	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 butterfly	det
9	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come off	past	Scales					off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	harm	can		the butterfly					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus butterfly=Experiencer

Option 3

Pollen from the flowers fell off it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 flowers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flowers	det
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pollen	nmod
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	Pollen from the flowers	it					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient it=Extent

Option 4

The butterfly sprayed glitter to escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 butterfly	det
2	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprayed	nsubj
3	sprayed	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	glitter	glitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprayed	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 escape	mark
6	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sprayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	past	the butterfly	glitter					tree rules
2	escape	to-infinitive	the butterfly not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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