Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a butterfly cannot choose…

Which plant did the butterfly, after considerable deliberation in the autumn, finally approach with a proposal of marriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plant, marriage · What happens: do, approach, propose · To what, where: butterfly

This is exam question 1 of lesson 808 «Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a butterfly cannot choose a wife and is pinned in a box of curiosities» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 plant	det
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 butterfly	det
5	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 deliberation	punct
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 deliberation	case
8	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deliberation	amod
9	deliberation	deliberation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 autumn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 autumn	det
12	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deliberation	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 approach	punct
14	finally	finally	ADV	_	15 approach	advmod
15	approach	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 proposal	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 proposal	det
18	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 approach	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 marriage	case
20	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 proposal	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	which plant	the butterfly		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Eventuality
2	approach	present	which plant not said here		with a proposal of marriage; finally property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with proposal=Instrument
3	propose		marriage			nom proposal «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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

The clover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clover	det
2	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The mint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mint	det
2	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The thyme

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thyme	det
2	thyme	thyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Mint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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