Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

Looking back: like the Butterfly, which character in the Kangaroo tale was proud and asked to be made special?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kangaroo tale · What happens: look back, be, ask, make · To what, where: character · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 96 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 asked	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Butterfly	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 Butterfly	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Butterfly	det
6	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 character	punct
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 character	det
9	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Butterfly	appos
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	15 proud	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tale	det
12	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tale	compound
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 proud	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 proud	cop
15	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 character	acl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	20 made	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 made	aux:pass
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 asked	ccomp
21	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 made	xcomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund			like the Butterfly	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	the Kangaroo tale	which character not said here	proud property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive			special property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Old Man Kangaroo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Kangaroo	amod
2	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Kangaroo	flat
3	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Pau Amma

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pau	flat

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

Option 4

The Camel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Camel	det
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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