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title: Looking back over the book: whom did the Moon's Fisherman help? — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back over the book: whom did the Moon's Fisherman help? Test 13 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 13 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B…

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Looking back over the book: whom did the Moon's Fisherman help?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Moon · **What happens:** look back, do, help · **To what, where:** Fisherman help

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This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 97 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends:t13:1
# text = Looking back over the book: whom did the Moon's Fisherman help?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | over the book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over book=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | the Moon's Fisherman help |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Eventuality |
| 3 | **help** |  | the Moon |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#o1}

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The Man who lived in the big house on the hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends:t13:o1:1
# text = The Man who lived in the big house on the hill
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the Man |  |  | the big house |  | on the hill | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

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

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The Man in the canoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends:t13:o2:1
# text = The Man in the canoe
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Sun in the sky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends:t13:o3:1
# text = The Sun in the sky
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Crab and the Armadillo who were both rather proud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends:t13:o4:1
# text = The Crab and the Armadillo who were both rather proud
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Armadillo	Armadillo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	both	both	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Crab and the Armadillo |  |  |  |  | both, proud *property* | tree rules |

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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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