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title: Identify the stage of a butterfly's life cycle in which the greater… — Life cycles · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the stage of a butterfly's life cycle in which the greater part of feeding and growth occurs. Exam question 3 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 3 · Life cycles

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Identify the stage of a butterfly's life cycle in which the greater part of feeding and growth occurs.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, greater part · **What happens:** identify, occur · **To what, where:** stage, life cycle

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» of the world 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/world/25-life-cycles/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:e3:1
# text = Identify the stage of a butterfly's life cycle in which the greater part of feeding and growth occurs.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the stage of a butterfly's life cycle |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent stage=Theme |
| 2 | **occur** | present | the greater part of feeding and growth |  |  | a butterfly's life cycle |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The chrysalis

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:e3:o1:1
# text = The chrysalis
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chrysalis	chrysalis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The adult butterfly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:e3:o2:1
# text = The adult butterfly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The egg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:e3:o3:1
# text = The egg
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The caterpillar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:e3:o4:1
# text = The caterpillar
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	caterpillar	caterpillar	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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**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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