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title: Looking back: like the Butterfly, which character in the Kangaroo ta… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: like the Butterfly, which character in the Kangaroo tale was proud and asked to be made special? 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, with the d
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# Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

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

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t12:1
# text = Looking back: like the Butterfly, which character in the Kangaroo tale was proud and asked to be made special?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
21	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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» |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Old Man Kangaroo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t12:o1:1
# text = Old Man Kangaroo
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
3	Kangaroo	Kangaroo	PROPN	NNP	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 Cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t12:o2:1
# text = The Cat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	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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Pau Amma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t12:o3:1
# text = Pau Amma
1	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Camel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t12:o4:1
# text = The Camel
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Camel	camel	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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