--- title: It is given that five butterflies alight upon a dish. Ascertain the… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics description: It is given that five butterflies alight upon a dish. Ascertain the aggregate number of wings. Exam question 4 of lesson 98 «The butterfly house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [The butterfly house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · The butterfly house It is given that five butterflies alight upon a dish. Ascertain the aggregate number of wings. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, ascertain · **To what, where:** It, aggregate number This is exam question 4 of lesson 98 «The butterfly house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/98-the-butterfly-house/#e4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* It is given that five butterflies alight upon a dish. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:98-the-butterfly-house:e4:1 # text = It is given that five butterflies alight upon a dish. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 5 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 alight alight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 8 upon upon ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present · passive | | It | | | | upon a dish; alight *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* Ascertain the aggregate number of wings. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:98-the-butterfly-house:e4:2 # text = Ascertain the aggregate number of wings. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 aggregate aggregate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the aggregate number of wings | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Thirty ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:98-the-butterfly-house:e4:o1:1 # text = Thirty 1 Thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Twenty ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:98-the-butterfly-house:e4:o2:1 # text = Twenty 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Ten ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:98-the-butterfly-house:e4:o3:1 # text = Ten 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Fifteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:98-the-butterfly-house:e4:o4:1 # text = Fifteen 1 Fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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