Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a butterfly cannot choose…

So he waited too long to pick a wife, that's his whole problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, that · What happens: wait, pick, be · To what, where: wife, whole problem

This is test 7 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 waited	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 waited	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pick	mark
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waited	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wife	det
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 problem	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 problem	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 problem	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 problem	nmod:poss
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 problem	amod
15	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	past	he		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pick	to-infinitive	he not said here	a wife		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
3	is a	present	that	his whole problem		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

Nah, he just chose the wrong girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chose	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 chose	advmod
5	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	he	the wrong girl					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he took too long choosing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 choosing	advcl
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 took	advmod
7	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	choose	gerund							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, he took too long choosing, and that's pretty much his whole problem in the story

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 took	advmod
7	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 long	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 problem	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 problem	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 problem	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 problem	cop
12	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	16 problem	advmod
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 problem	nmod:poss
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 problem	amod
16	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 story	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 problem	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	he			long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	choose	gerund	he not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	that	his whole problem	the story		tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he waited for the wrong one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 waited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 one	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	he					for the wrong one	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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