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description: What would most likely happen to a robin that spotted a peacock butterfly suddenly flashing its eye spots? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 219 «Butterflies, moths and ladybirds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 10 · ★ · Butterflies, moths and ladybirds

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What would most likely happen to a robin that spotted a peacock butterfly suddenly flashing its eye spots?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** robin, peacock butterfly · **What happens:** happen, spot, flash · **To what, where:** peacock butterfly, eye spots

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 219 «Butterflies, moths and ladybirds» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds:t10:1
# text = What would most likely happen to a robin that spotted a peacock butterfly suddenly flashing its eye spots?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	spotted	spot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a robin; likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spot** | past | a robin |  | a peacock butterfly |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme butterfly=Destination |
| 3 | **flash** | gerund | a peacock butterfly *not said here* | butterfly's eye spots |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It would think it was another robin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds:t10:o1:1
# text = It would think it was another robin
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	robin	robin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | it | another robin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would fall fast asleep on the spot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds:t10:o2:1
# text = It would fall fast asleep on the spot
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would | It |  |  | the spot |  | asleep, fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on spot=Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It might get a fright and fly away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds:t10:o3:1
# text = It might get a fright and fly away
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | might | It | a fright |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fright=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fly away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would bring all its friends to eat it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds:t10:o4:1
# text = It would bring all its friends to eat it
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | would | It |  | its friends |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument friend=Destination |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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**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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