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title: What was the butterfly's final encounter before the tale closed? — Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a pro… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the butterfly's final encounter before the tale closed? Exam question 4 of lesson 807 «Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies the storm and is burnt black» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies…

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What was the butterfly's final encounter before the tale closed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** final encounter, butterfly · **What happens:** be, close, encounter · **To what, where:** final encounter

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 807 «Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies the storm and is burnt black» of the books 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/books/807-pg27200-part18/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:807-pg27200-part18:e4:1
# text = What was the butterfly's final encounter before the tale closed?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	encounter	encounter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the butterfly's final encounter before the tale |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **close** | participle |  | the butterfly's final encounter before the tale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **encounter** |  | the butterfly |  |  |  | before the tale |  | nom encounter «act transitive»: poss=agent before=obl |

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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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An unfinished proposal to the pea-blossom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:807-pg27200-part18:e4:o1:1
# text = An unfinished proposal to the pea-blossom
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A quarrel with the old willow tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:807-pg27200-part18:e4:o2:1
# text = A quarrel with the old willow tree
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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An unfinished proposal to the pea-blossom, which he never finished because the daisy scolded him

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:807-pg27200-part18:e4:o3:1
# text = An unfinished proposal to the pea-blossom, which he never finished because the daisy scolded him
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	daisy	daisy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	scolded	scold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **finish** | past | a unfinished proposal to the pea blossom |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality which=Eventuality |
| 2 | **scold** | past | the daisy | proposal |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
An unfinished proposal to the pea-blossom, cut short by the sudden arrival of the storm

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:807-pg27200-part18:e4:o4:1
# text = An unfinished proposal to the pea-blossom, cut short by the sudden arrival of the storm
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | participle · passive | the sudden arrival of the storm | a unfinished proposal to the pea blossom |  |  |  | short *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 2 | **arrive** |  | the storm |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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