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title: Identify the location to which the cetacean was directed by the smal… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the location to which the cetacean was directed by the small 'Stute Fish in pursuit of a human meal. Exam question 1 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 the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 1 · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi…

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Identify the location to which the cetacean was directed by the small 'Stute Fish in pursuit of a human meal.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, small Stute Fish · **What happens:** identify, direct, pursue · **To what, where:** location, cetacean, pursuit, human meal

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 74 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/74-justso-whale-throat/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:e1:1
# text = Identify the location to which the cetacean was directed by the small 'Stute Fish in pursuit of a human meal.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cetacean	cetacean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	directed	direct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Stute	Stute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Fish	Fish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the location |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme |
| 2 | **direct** | past · passive | the small Stute Fish | the cetacean |  | pursuit of a human meal |  | to the location | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in pursuit=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pursue** |  |  | a human meal |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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Latitude forty south, longitude fifty east

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:e1:o1:1
# text = Latitude forty south, longitude fifty east
1	Latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	south	south	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	longitude	longitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Off Iceland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:e1:o2:1
# text = Off Iceland
1	Off	off	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Equator

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:e1:o3:1
# text = The Equator
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Equator	Equator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Latitude fifty north, longitude forty west

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:e1:o4:1
# text = Latitude fifty north, longitude forty west
1	Latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	north	north	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	longitude	longitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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