Test 3 · ★ · Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon fli…

did the butterfly actually fly out the window?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, fly out · To what, where: butterfly, window

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 634 «Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon flies out, takes the soccer game, and ends Parliament» of the books 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 butterfly	det
3	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 fly	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the butterfly					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Eventuality
2	fly out	present		the window				actually property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, straight out the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 out	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 out	punct
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 out	advmod
4	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 out	nsubj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Nah, it flew into the lamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 lamp	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lamp	det
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	it					into the lamp result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lamp=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it flapped right out through the open window and vanished into the sky

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flapped	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flapped	nsubj
4	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 out	advmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	4 flapped	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 window	amod
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flapped	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 vanished	cc
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flapped	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 sky	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sky	det
15	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap	past	it			the open window		out property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location
2	vanish	past				the sky			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, it actually flew out through the cracked door and onto the windowsill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flew	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 flew	compound:prt
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
9	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 door	amod
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 windowsill	cc
12	onto	onto	ADP	_	14 windowsill	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 windowsill	det
14	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly out	past	it			the cracked door and the windowsill		actually property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Location
2	crack	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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