Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a butterfly cannot choose…
Wait, what does the butterfly say he really needs, like, the dream life?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, butterfly · What happens: wait, do, say, need · To what, where: butterfly · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 does | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 butterfly | det |
| 6 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 needs | nsubj |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 needs | advmod |
| 10 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 life | punct |
| 12 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 16 life | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 life | det |
| 15 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 life | compound |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 needs | advcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | present | the butterfly | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | need | present | butterfly | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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
Freedom, sunshine, and a little flower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sunshine | punct |
| 3 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Freedom | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flower | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flower | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flower | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flower | amod |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Freedom | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Money, a girlfriend, and a nice house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 girlfriend | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girlfriend | det |
| 4 | girlfriend | girlfriend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Money | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 house | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 house | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 8 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | amod |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Money | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Sunshine, lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunshine | Sunshine | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sunshine | punct |
| 3 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 Sunshine | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Freedom, food, and a cozy bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 food | punct |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Freedom | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bed | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bed | det |
| 7 | cozy | cozy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bed | amod |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Freedom | conj |
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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