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title: Real life: what odd thing can butterflies do with their feet? — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: what odd thing can butterflies do with their feet? Test 9 · ★ 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

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Real life: what odd thing can butterflies do with their feet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Real life, butterflies · **What happens:** thing, do · **To what, where:** odd thing

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t9:1
# text = Real life: what odd thing can butterflies do with their feet?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thing** |  | Real life |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | can | butterflies | odd thing *not said here* |  |  |  | with butterflies's feet | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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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Taste

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t9:o1:1
# text = Taste
1	Taste	taste	NOUN	NN	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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Fly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t9:o2:1
# text = Fly
1	Fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t9:o3:1
# text = Sing
1	Sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast:t9:o4:1
# text = Smell
1	Smell	smell	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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