Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a butterfly cannot choose…

Lol, so he stuck it out in the warm room like it's no big deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he, room · What happens: stick out, be · To what, where: it, warm room, big deal

This is test 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. 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 stuck	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
5	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 stuck	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	17 deal	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 deal	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 deal	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 deal	det
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 deal	amod
17	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	acl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick out	past	he	it		the warm room			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in room=Destination
2	is a	present	room	no big deal					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 · ✓ the right answer

He said he could exist there, not really live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 exist	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 exist	aux
5	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 exist	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 live	advmod
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 live	advmod
10	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 exist	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	exist	could	he	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not live	infinitive	he not said here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he said it was fine, pretty chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fine	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chill	punct
9	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chill	amod
10	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past						fine property	tree rules

Option 3

He said he could exist there, not really live, and that he was stuck there for good

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 exist	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 exist	aux
5	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 exist	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 live	advmod
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 live	advmod
10	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 exist	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stuck	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stuck	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 stuck	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stuck	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stuck	cop
16	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	conj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 stuck	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 good	case
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	exist	could	he	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not live	infinitive	he not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	he	there	for good; stuck property	tree rules

Option 4

He said he'd rather stay put, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stay	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stay	aux
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 stay	advmod
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stay	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 honestly	punct
9	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He	honestly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stay	would	he		tree rules
3	put	participle	he not said here		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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