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Test 9 · ★★ · Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whi…

The Caterpillar in the book gets cross when Alice says it will turn into a butterfly one day. Who is right about real caterpillars?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Caterpillar, Alice · What happens: get, say, turn, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 402 «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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

Sentence 1: The Caterpillar in the book gets cross when Alice says it will turn into a butterfly one day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caterpillar	det
2	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gets	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 book	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Caterpillar	nmod
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gets	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 says	advmod
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gets	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turn	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 turn	aux
13	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 butterfly	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 butterfly	det
16	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turn	obl
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 day	nummod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turn	obl:unmarked
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the Caterpillar in the book					cross property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	Alice						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn	future	Caterpillar				day	into a butterfly result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into butterfly=Result

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.

Sentence 2: Who is right about real caterpillars?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 caterpillars	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 caterpillars	amod
6	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about real caterpillars; right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

The Caterpillar: caterpillars stay caterpillars all their lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caterpillar	det
2	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stay	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct
4	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stay	nsubj
5	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stay	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 lives	det:predet
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lives	nmod:poss
9	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stay	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the Caterpillar	caterpillars				their lives obl:unmarked	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme caterpillar=Location

Option 2

Neither: caterpillars become worms when they grow up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	3 caterpillars	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
4	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 grow	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grow	nsubj
8	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 become	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 grow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	neither caterpillars	worms					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	grow up	present	caterpillars = caterpillar						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Alice: it will become a chrysalis, then a butterfly or moth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 become	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 become	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chrysalis	det
7	chrysalis	chrysalis	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 butterfly	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 butterfly	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 butterfly	det
11	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chrysalis	appos
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 moth	cc
13	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 butterfly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	future	Alice	a chrysalis					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Alice, but only if it eats a magic mushroom first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 eats	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eats	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 eats	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 eats	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 eats	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eats	nsubj
7	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mushroom	det
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mushroom	compound
10	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eats	obj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 eats	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Alice	a magic mushroom				first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Patient

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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