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title: did the butterfly actually fly out the window? — Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the butterfly actually fly out the window? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 634 «Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon flies out, takes the soccer game, and ends Parliament» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 3 · ★ · Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon fli…

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did the butterfly actually fly out the window?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, fly out · **To what, where:** butterfly, window

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 634 «Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon flies out, takes the soccer game, and ends Parliament» of the books 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/books/634-pg23661-part2/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:634-pg23661-part2:t3:1
# text = did the butterfly actually fly out the window?
1	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the butterfly |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fly out** | present |  | the window |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, straight out the window

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:634-pg23661-part2:t3:o1:1
# text = Yeah, straight out the window
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nah, it flew into the lamp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:634-pg23661-part2:t3:o2:1
# text = Nah, it flew into the lamp
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | it |  |  |  |  | into the lamp *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lamp=Result |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Yeah, it flapped right out through the open window and vanished into the sky

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:634-pg23661-part2:t3:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it flapped right out through the open window and vanished into the sky
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flapped	flap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flap** | past | it |  |  | the open window |  | out *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location |
| 2 | **vanish** | past |  |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nah, it actually flew out through the cracked door and onto the windowsill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:634-pg23661-part2:t3:o4:1
# text = Nah, it actually flew out through the cracked door and onto the windowsill
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly out** | past | it |  |  | the cracked door and the windowsill |  | actually *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Location |
| 2 | **crack** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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