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title: Mate, what does he end up being, like, a lonely old guy? — Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a but… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what does he end up being, like, a lonely old guy? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 808 «Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a butterfly cannot choose a wife and is pinned in a box of curiosities» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a butterfly cannot choose…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mate, what does he end up being, like, a lonely old guy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** end up, be · **To what, where:** Mate, end lonely old guy

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 808 «Andersen's Tales, The Butterfly: a butterfly cannot choose a wife and is pinned in a box of curiosities» 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/808-pg27200-part19/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:808-pg27200-part19:t8:1
# text = Mate, what does he end up being, like, a lonely old guy?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	compound	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end up** | present · do-support | he | Mate |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient what=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | a end lonely old guy |  |  |  |  | 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 -->
An old bachelor, unmarried for life, and then stuck in a box of curiosities forever

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:808-pg27200-part19:t8:o1:1
# text = An old bachelor, unmarried for life, and then stuck in a box of curiosities forever
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	unmarried	unmarry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	curiosities	curiosity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unmarry** | participle |  | a old bachelor *not said here* |  |  |  | for life | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
An old bachelor, unmarried for life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:808-pg27200-part19:t8:o2:1
# text = An old bachelor, unmarried for life
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	unmarried	unmarry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unmarry** | participle |  | a old bachelor *not said here* |  |  |  | for life | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, an old bachelor, unmarried for life, pinned up in some random people's room

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:808-pg27200-part19:t8:o3:1
# text = Yeah, an old bachelor, unmarried for life, pinned up in some random people's room
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bachelor	bachelor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	unmarried	unmarry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	pinned	pin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unmarry** | participle |  | a old bachelor *not said here* |  |  |  | for life | tree rules |
| 2 | **pin up** | participle |  |  |  | some random people's room |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, basically a lonely old man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:808-pg27200-part19:t8:o4:1
# text = Yeah, basically a lonely old man
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	basically	basically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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