Test 9 · Life cycles

Which is true about a butterfly and its caterpillar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 9 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» of the world 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	about	about	ADP	_	6 butterfly	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 butterfly	det
6	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 caterpillar	cc
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 caterpillar	nmod:poss
9	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 butterfly	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a butterfly and its caterpillar; 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

They are two different kinds of animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kinds	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kinds	cop
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kinds	nummod
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kinds	amod
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 animal	case
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kinds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	two different kinds				of animal	tree rules

Option 2

The caterpillar is the butterfly's food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the caterpillar	the butterfly's food					tree rules

Option 3

The butterfly turns back into a caterpillar

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	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 turns	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 caterpillar	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 caterpillar	det
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	present	the butterfly					into a caterpillar	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They are the same animal at different stages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 animal	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 animal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animal	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 stages	case
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stages	amod
8	stages	stage	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 animal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	the same animal		different stages			tree rules

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