Test 5 · The butterfly house
A butterfly lands on your sleeve near the exit. What should you do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: butterfly, you · What happens: land, do · To what, where: sleeve
This is test 5 of lesson 98 «The butterfly house» 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: A butterfly lands on your sleeve near the exit.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 butterfly | det |
| 2 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lands | nsubj |
| 3 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sleeve | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sleeve | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lands | obl |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 exit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 exit | det |
| 9 | exit | exit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lands | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | present | a butterfly | your sleeve | near the exit | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on sleeve=Destination |
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: What should you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Grab it gently by its wings and lift it off yourself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Grab | obj |
| 3 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 1 Grab | advmod |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 wings | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Grab | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lift | cc |
| 8 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Grab | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lift | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 lift | compound:prt |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 lift | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | imperative | you not said here | it | by its wings; gently property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | lift off | present | you not said here | it | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme yourself=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Leave it be and ask a keeper to help it off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Leave | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ask | cc |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Leave | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 keeper | det |
| 7 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 help | mark |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 help | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 help | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | it | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | a keeper | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent keeper=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | help off not said to happen | to-infinitive | a keeper not said here | keeper | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
Option 3
Blow on it until it flies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Blow | obl |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 flies | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flies | nsubj |
| 6 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Blow | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | imperative | you not said here | it | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly | present | it | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Shake your arm hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 arm | nmod:poss |
| 3 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shake | obj |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Shake | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | imperative | you not said here | your arm | hard property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
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