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title: Looking back: Pau Amma said «I did not know I was so important». Who… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: Pau Amma said «I did not know I was so important». Who in this part pretends to be very important? 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, with the
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# Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

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

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/#t14).

## The question {#question}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t14:1
# text = Looking back: Pau Amma said «I did not know I was so important».
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
4	Pau	Pau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Amma	Amma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t14:2
# text = Who in this part pretends to be very important?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	pretends	pretend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The Animal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t14:o1:1
# text = The Animal
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Animal	Animal	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 Animal from the sea, who ate the great dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t14:o2:1
# text = The Animal from the sea, who ate the great dinner
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Animal	Animal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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The Butterfly's wife, who quarrelled all morning long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t14:o3:1
# text = The Butterfly's wife, who quarrelled all morning long
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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The Butterfly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t14:o4:1
# text = The Butterfly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Butterfly	butterfly	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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