Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a butterfly cannot choose…

Wait, what did the potted plant say, like, roast him or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, potted plant · What happens: wait, do, pot, say, roast · To what, where: plant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plant	det
6	potted	pot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 plant	amod
7	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 roast	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 roast	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
12	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 roast	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 roast	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past			tree rules
3	pot	participle			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	the potted plant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	roast	infinitive		plant	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

That his comfort was really poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 comfort	det
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 comfort	nmod:poss
3	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poor	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 poor	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 poor	advmod
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his comfort					poor property	tree rules
2	comfort		his = he						nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Roasted, sorta

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sorta	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Roasted	punct
3	sorta	sorta	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It said he was pretty dumb lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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 dumb	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dumb	cop
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 dumb	advmod
6	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 said	discourse

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

Option 4

It said his comfort's pretty weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 comfort	nmod:poss
4	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weak	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 weak	cop
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 weak	advmod
7	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	It		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	his comfort	pretty, weak property	tree rules
3	comfort		his = he		nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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