--- title: In The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the caterpillar eats cake, pickles a… — The butterfly house · tree and pragmatics description: In The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the caterpillar eats cake, pickles and sausage. What would you fix? Test 3 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 right. --- [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/t3/) [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/) / t3 # Test 3 · The butterfly house In The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the caterpillar eats cake, pickles and sausage. What would you fix? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** caterpillar, you · **What happens:** eat, fix · **To what, where:** cake This is test 3 of lesson 98 «The butterfly house» 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/98-the-butterfly-house/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* In The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the caterpillar eats cake, pickles and sausage. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:98-the-butterfly-house:t3:1 # text = In The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the caterpillar eats cake, pickles and sausage. 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 Very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 Hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Caterpillar Caterpillar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 pickles pickle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sausage sausage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | the caterpillar | cake and pickles and sausage | | | | in the Hungry Caterpillar | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | 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:* What would you fix? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:98-the-butterfly-house:t3:2 # text = What would you fix? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fix** | would | you | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Real caterpillars eat the leaves of their own food plants ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:98-the-butterfly-house:t3:o1:1 # text = Real caterpillars eat the leaves of their own food plants 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Real caterpillars | the leaves of caterpillars's own food plants | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} Nothing, caterpillars really can eat everything people eat ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:98-the-butterfly-house:t3:o2:1 # text = Nothing, caterpillars really can eat everything people eat 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 6 obj _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | can | | everything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | | 2 | **eat** | present | people | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Caterpillars eat only fruit ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:98-the-butterfly-house:t3:o3:1 # text = Caterpillars eat only fruit 1 Caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Caterpillars | fruit | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Caterpillars eat only meat ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:98-the-butterfly-house:t3:o4:1 # text = Caterpillars eat only meat 1 Caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Caterpillars | meat | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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. 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