Test 15 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

Josh: «I'm dead, the Butterfly said Suleiman begged HIM.» (I'm dead = so funny) Why is this so cheeky?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh, Suleiman, I, this · What happens: be, say, beg · To what, where: Josh, Butterfly · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 96 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» 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

Sentence 1: Josh: «I'm dead, the Butterfly said Suleiman begged HIM.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Josh	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Josh	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Butterfly	det
9	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 begged	nsubj
12	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
13	HIM	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 begged	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Josh	Josh not said here		dead property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Josh				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	beg speech: request in a quote	past	Suleiman		Butterfly		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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.

Sentence 2: (I'm dead = so funny) Why is this so cheeky?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	=	=	PUNCT	_	7 funny	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 funny	advmod
7	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dead	conj
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
9	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 cheeky	advmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cheeky	cop
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 cheeky	nsubj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 cheeky	advmod
13	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dead	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	I	dead property	tree rules
2	be		I not said here		tree rules
3	is	present	this	cheeky property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

He turned it round so the Butterfly looked grand and Suleiman looked like a beggar

The tree, 15 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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	obj
4	round	round	ADV	_	2 turned	advmod
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 looked	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Butterfly	det
7	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 looked	nsubj
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	advcl
9	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looked	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
11	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 beggar	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 beggar	det
15	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	past	He	it	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	look	past	the Butterfly		grand property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	look	past	Suleiman		like a beggar	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He turned it round to look grand

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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	obj
4	round	round	ADV	_	2 turned	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 turned	advcl
7	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	He	it				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	He not said here					grand property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted to be a King

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 King	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 King	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	a King					tree rules

Option 4

He made Suleiman look silly

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	Suleiman					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	Suleiman not said here					silly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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