Test 8 · The butterfly house

Why does a glasswing hide so well?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, glassw · To what, where: glasswing hide

This is test 8 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	conj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hide	det
4	glasswing	glassw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 hide	amod
5	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 does	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a glasswing hide				well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Eventuality
2	glassw	gerund							tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

It changes colour like a chameleon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 chameleon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chameleon	det
6	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	It	colour				like a chameleon	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

Option 2

It hides inside flowers all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hides	nsubj
2	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	4 flowers	case
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hides	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	It			flowers	day		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside flower=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Leaves and flowers show through its wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 flowers	cc
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Leaves	conj
4	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 wings	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wings	nmod:poss
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Leaves and flowers			its wings			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It flies only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flies	nsubj
2	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 night	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	It				night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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