Test 9 · The butterfly house
Grandad says one brave monarch flies to Mexico and back every year. Right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad, one brave monarch · What happens: say, fly · To what, where: Mexico · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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: Grandad says one brave monarch flies to Mexico and back every year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 monarch | nummod |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 monarch | amod |
| 5 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flies | nsubj |
| 6 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Mexico | case |
| 8 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flies | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 back | cc |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 flies | conj |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flies | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fly | present | one brave monarch | Mexico | year | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mexico=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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Yes, every single monarch does the whole round trip itself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 does | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 monarch | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 monarch | amod |
| 5 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 does | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trip | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trip | amod |
| 9 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trip | amod |
| 10 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 does | obj |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 10 trip | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | every single monarch | the whole round trip monarch | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Eventuality |
Option 2
No, monarchs never leave Canada
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 leave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | monarchs | monarch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 leave | advmod |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | present | monarchs | Canada | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canada=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, and it does it three times a year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 does | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 does | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 does | cc |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 does | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 does | obj |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 does | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 times | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | it | it | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it takes several generations to fly north again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 takes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 takes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 takes | nsubj |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 generations | amod |
| 6 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 takes | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fly | mark |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 generations | acl |
| 9 | north | north | ADV | _ | 8 fly | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 fly | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | it | several generations | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | several generations not said here | again | north property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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