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title: Select the response that most accurately characterises the alimentar… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response that most accurately characterises the alimentary consequence of the grating for the Whale. Exam question 3 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 t
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# Exam question 3 · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi…

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Select the response that most accurately characterises the alimentary consequence of the grating for the Whale.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, most · **What happens:** select, characteris · **To what, where:** response, alimentary consequence

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:e3:1
# text = Select the response that most accurately characterises the alimentary consequence of the grating for the Whale.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	nsubj	_	_
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	alimentary	alimentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	grating	grating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present | most | the alimentary consequence of the grating for the Whale |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He could thereafter consume only very small fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:e3:o1:1
# text = He could thereafter consume only very small fish
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	consume	consume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consume** | could | He | small fish |  |  |  | thereafter *property* | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He would starve and die near Albion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:e3:o2:1
# text = He would starve and die near Albion
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	starve	starve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Albion	Albion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | would | He |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | infinitive | He *not said here* |  |  | Albion |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He could thereafter consume only very small fish and never swallow another man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:e3:o3:1
# text = He could thereafter consume only very small fish and never swallow another man
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	consume	consume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consume** | could | He | small fish |  |  |  | thereafter *property* | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Asset |
| 2 | **not** **swallow** | infinitive | He *not said here* | another man |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He could eat crabs and seals instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:e3:o4:1
# text = He could eat crabs and seals instead
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | could | He | crabs and seals |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Patient |

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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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