Test 8 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

Real life: could a butterfly's stamp bend a blade of grass?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real life · What happens: bend · To what, where: stamp

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bend	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 stamp	punct
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stamp	aux
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 butterfly	det
6	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stamp	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 butterfly	case
8	stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bend	obl
9	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 blade	det
11	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bend	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 grass	case
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blade	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 bend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	present	Real life	a butterfly's stamp					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent blade=Material

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

No: it weighs under a gram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 weighs	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 weighs	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 weighs	nsubj
4	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 gram	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gram	det
7	gram	gram	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weighs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	it			a gram			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes: a stamp could bend a whole blade of grass and break a twig

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 bend	discourse
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stamp	det
4	stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bend	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bend	aux
6	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 blade	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 blade	amod
9	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bend	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 grass	case
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blade	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 break	cc
13	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bend	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 twig	det
15	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	could	a stamp	a whole blade of grass					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent blade=Material
2	break	infinitive	a stamp not said here	a twig					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twig=Patient

Option 3

Yes, it could bend a leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 bend	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bend	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bend	aux
5	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 leaf	det
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	could	it	a leaf					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent leaf=Material

Option 4

Yes, it would crush a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 crush	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crush	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 crush	aux
5	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crush	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	would	it	a stone					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument stone=Patient

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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