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title: What lesson did the Animal from the sea teach Suleiman? — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St… · tree and pragmatics
description: What lesson did the Animal from the sea teach Suleiman? Test 3 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 3 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

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What lesson did the Animal from the sea teach Suleiman?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** teach · **To what, where:** Suleiman, sea

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t3:1
# text = What lesson did the Animal from the sea teach Suleiman?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Animal	Animal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	teach	teach	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · do-support |  |  | Suleiman | the sea |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent suleiman=Recipient |

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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 {#o1}

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Eat slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t3:o1:1
# text = Eat slowly
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Showing off is silly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t3:o2:1
# text = Showing off is silly
1	Showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show off** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Showing |  |  |  |  | silly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fishes eat too much food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t3:o3:1
# text = Fishes eat too much food
1	Fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Fishes | much food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Never feed the animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t3:o4:1
# text = Never feed the animals
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **feed** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the animals |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient |

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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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