--- title: Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Books description: The 20 test and exam questions of lesson 74 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:… # Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat The 20 questions of lesson 74 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books course of Mova's primary school with their options, 111 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/74-justso-whale-throat/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t1/) — Liam, 9: "The Whale ate the sailor and never let him out." Put him right. — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t2/) — Why do you think the 'Stute Fish sent the Whale to find a man? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t3/) — Kipling keeps saying "you must not forget the suspenders". Why does it matter at the end? — right ✓ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t4/) — Jayden, Gen Alpha: "Mariner's lowkey the GOAT, no cap, he cooked." ("lowkey" = quietly, "GOAT" = the best ever, "no cap" = for real, "he cooked" = he did brilliantly.) What did he do so well? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t5/) — What would have happened if the Mariner had kept quiet inside the Whale? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t6/) — True or false: the story says whales today never eat men or boys or little girls, because of the grating. — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t7/) — Nan in Glasgow: "Och, the wee fish was a right fly one, so he was." ("wee" = small, "fly" = sly and clever.) Which fish does she mean? — right ✓ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t8/) — Mason says: "Whales got baleen when a sailor jammed a raft in one." Put him right. — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t9/) — Why does the Mariner rhyme "grating" with "ating"? — right ✓ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t10/) — Dad, dead sarcastic: "Oh great, let's all go paddle at Fifty North." What does the poem say it's like there? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t11/) — Sophie, Texas: "Y'all, that Whale just turned round three times on his tail like a dang dog." When did he do that? — right ✓ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t12/) — Which word best describes the Mariner? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t13/) — Dylan, Kiwi: "Yeah nah, the Whale's not the bad guy, he was just hungry, eh." ("yeah nah" = no.) What did the Whale do that was greedy? — right ✓ · ★ - [t14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t14/) — ★★★ Count carefully: how many separate things did the Whale swallow in one gulp, counting the Mariner himself and each thing he had with him? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t15/) — ★★★ The Mariner walked out wearing his breeches and took the jack-knife home. What of his things did he NOT take home? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/t16/) — ★★★ Read carefully: did the Mariner make the grating before or after he asked to be taken home? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/e1/) — Identify the location to which the cetacean was directed by the small 'Stute Fish in pursuit of a human meal. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/e2/) — Ascertain the means by which the shipwrecked Mariner secured the grating within the throat of the Whale. — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/e3/) — Select the response that most accurately characterises the alimentary consequence of the grating for the Whale. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/e4/) — State, in accordance with established zoology, the structure by which the largest whales filter their sustenance. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [73. 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