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Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

Looking back: Pau Amma said «I did not know I was so important». Who in this part pretends to be very important?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pau · What happens: look back, say, not know, be, pretend · To what, where: part · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Looking back: Pau Amma said «I did not know I was so important».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	Pau	Pau	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
5	Amma	Amma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Pau	flat
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 important	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 important	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 important	advmod
15	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 know	ccomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Pau not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Pau						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not know in a quote	past · do-support	Pau						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	past	Pau					important property	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: Who in this part pretends to be very important?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 pretends	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 part	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 part	det
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pretends	obl
5	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	9 important	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 important	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 important	advmod
9	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pretends	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pretends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present				this part			tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						important property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The Animal from the sea, who ate the great dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Animal	det
2	Animal	Animal	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ate	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Animal	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ate	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dinner	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dinner	amod
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the Animal from the sea	the great dinner					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

Option 3

The Butterfly's wife, who quarrelled all morning long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Butterfly	det
2	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Butterfly	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quarrelled	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 quarrelled	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 quarrelled	nsubj
7	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quarrelled	obl:unmarked
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 quarrelled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quarrell	past	the Butterfly's wife				morning	long property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Butterfly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Butterfly	det
2	Butterfly	butterfly	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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