Test 5 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

Which is TRUE in this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: part

This is test 5 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				this part		true property	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 · ✓ the right answer

The Butterfly's boast is a fib

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Butterfly	det
2	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boast	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Butterfly	case
4	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fib	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fib	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fib	det
7	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Butterfly's boast	a fib					tree rules
2	boast		the Butterfly						nom boast «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The Butterfly was not frightened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Butterfly	det
2	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 frightened	advmod
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not frighten	past · passive		the Butterfly					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 3

Suleiman stamped his foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stamped	nsubj
2	stamped	stamp	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 foot	nmod:poss
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stamped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stamp	past	Suleiman	Suleiman's foot					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination

Option 4

The Butterfly's boast is a fib, and Suleiman never stamped his foot at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Butterfly	det
2	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boast	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Butterfly	case
4	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fib	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fib	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fib	det
7	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stamped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stamped	cc
10	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stamped	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 stamped	advmod
12	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fib	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 foot	nmod:poss
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stamped	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 stamped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the Butterfly's boast	a fib		tree rules
2	not stamp	past	Suleiman	Suleiman's foot	all	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme at all=Destination
3	boast		the Butterfly			nom boast «communication intransitive»: 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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