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title: Mad question, how tall was Little Toomai, in feet? — The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mad question, how tall was Little Toomai, in feet? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 624 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag, the old elephant, and Little Toomai tease each other about the jungle hunts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Test 8 · ★ · The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag…

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Mad question, how tall was Little Toomai, in feet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** tall Little Toomai

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 624 «The Jungle Book, Toomai of the Elephants, part 1: Kala Nag, the old elephant, and Little Toomai tease each other about the jungle hunts» 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/624-pg236-part25/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t8:1
# text = Mad question, how tall was Little Toomai, in feet?
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Toomai	Toomai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | tall Little Toomai |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t8:o1:1
# text = a yard
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	yard	yard	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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three feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t8:o2:1
# text = three feet
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
four feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t8:o3:1
# text = four feet
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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two feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:624-pg236-part25:t8:o4:1
# text = two feet
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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