Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a butterfly cannot choose…

What term does the narrator use to describe the state of the butterfly at the close of the tale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: use, describe · To what, where: state, close

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 use	obl
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrator	det
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 describe	mark
8	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 state	det
10	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 describe	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 butterfly	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 butterfly	det
13	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 state	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 close	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 close	det
16	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 describe	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 tale	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tale	det
19	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 close	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · do-support	the narrator						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	describe	to-infinitive	the narrator not said here	the state of the butterfly		the close of the tale			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent state=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 · ← Mova's choice

A lonely old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

An old bachelor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bachelor	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bachelor	amod
3	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A widower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 widower	det
2	widower	widower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A married old beetle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 beetle	det
2	married	married	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beetle	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beetle	amod
4	beetle	beetle	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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