Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a butterfly cannot choose…
Mate, what does he end up being, like, a lonely old guy?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: end up, be · To what, where: Mate, end lonely old guy
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | obl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 end | obj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 end | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 end | nsubj |
| 6 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 guy | compound |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 end | compound:prt |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 guy | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 guy | punct |
| 10 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 15 guy | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 guy | det |
| 13 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 guy | amod |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 guy | amod |
| 15 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 guy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end up | present · do-support | he | Mate | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient what=Result | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | a end lonely old guy | 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
An old bachelor, unmarried for life, and then stuck in a box of curiosities forever
The tree, 15 words
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 |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unmarried | punct |
| 5 | unmarried | unmarry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bachelor | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unmarried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stuck | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stuck | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stuck | advmod |
| 11 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bachelor | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 box | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 box | det |
| 14 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stuck | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 curiosities | case |
| 16 | curiosities | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 box | nmod |
| 17 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 11 stuck | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unmarry | participle | a old bachelor not said here | for life | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
An old bachelor, unmarried for life
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 |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unmarried | punct |
| 5 | unmarried | unmarry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bachelor | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unmarried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unmarry | participle | a old bachelor not said here | for life | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, an old bachelor, unmarried for life, pinned up in some random people's room
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 bachelor | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bachelor | punct |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bachelor | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bachelor | amod |
| 5 | bachelor | bachelor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 unmarried | punct |
| 7 | unmarried | unmarry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bachelor | acl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unmarried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pinned | punct |
| 11 | pinned | pin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bachelor | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 pinned | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 people | det |
| 15 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 room | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 people | case |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pinned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unmarry | participle | a old bachelor not said here | for life | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pin up | participle | some random people's room | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, basically a lonely old man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 man | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 3 | basically | basically | ADV | _ | 7 man | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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