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# Test 18 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

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★★★ The Animal said its brothers each eat «twice as much as that between meals». If the dinner was enough for ALL the animals in the world, the Animal's thirty thousand brothers eat what, between meals?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★, dinner, thousand brothers · **What happens:** say, eat, be · **To what, where:** brothers, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 18 · ★ 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/#t18).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ The Animal said its brothers each eat «twice as much as that between meals».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t18:1
# text = ★★★ The Animal said its brothers each eat «twice as much as that between meals».
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Animal	Animal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ★ ★ the Animal | Animal's brothers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |

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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:* If the dinner was enough for ALL the animals in the world, the Animal's thirty thousand brothers eat what, between meals?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t18:2
# text = If the dinner was enough for ALL the animals in the world, the Animal's thirty thousand brothers eat what, between meals?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	ALL	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Animal	Animal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the dinner |  |  |  |  | for all animals in the world; enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | the Animal's thousand brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Twice the whole world's dinner, each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t18:o1:1
# text = Twice the whole world's dinner, each
1	Twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Half of the world's dinner, each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t18:o2:1
# text = Half of the world's dinner, each
1	Half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Two dinners for each of them, all together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t18:o3:1
# text = Two dinners for each of them, all together
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dinners	dinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Twice the dinner, each, at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t18:o4:1
# text = Twice the dinner, each, at once
1	Twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
```

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

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