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title: «monarch butterflies fly to Mexico and back, same ones» What is right? — Animals of North America and Britain:… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 7 · ★★★ · Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles,…

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«monarch butterflies fly to Mexico and back, same ones» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** monarch butterflies, same ones · **What happens:** fly, be · **To what, where:** Mexico · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 80 «Animals of North America and Britain: moose, bald eagles, raccoons, beavers, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, robins» 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/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain:t7:1
# text = «monarch butterflies fly to Mexico and back, same ones» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** *in a quote* | present | monarch butterflies |  | Mexico |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mexico=Result |
| 2 | **is** | present | same ones |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, each one flies there and back twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain:t7:o1:1
# text = Yes, each one flies there and back twice
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
9	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | each one |  |  | there |  | twice *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The trip north takes several generations; the returners are their descendants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain:t7:o2:1
# text = The trip north takes several generations; the returners are their descendants
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	returners	returner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	descendants	descendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | the trip north | several generations |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generation=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the returners | returners's descendants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, they never leave Mexico

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain:t7:o3:1
# text = No, they never leave Mexico
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **leave** | present | they | Mexico |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mexico=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, they live for twenty years, so they can make the trip again and again

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain:t7:o4:1
# text = Yes, they live for twenty years, so they can make the trip again and again
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | they |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | can | they | the trip |  |  | again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trip=Product |

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