--- title: ★★★ Count carefully: how many separate things did the Whale swallow… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Count carefully: how many separate things did the Whale swallow in one gulp, counting the Mariner himself and each thing he had with him? Test 14 · ★ 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 dependenc --- [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/t14/) [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:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/74-justso-whale-throat/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi… ★★★ Count carefully: how many separate things did the Whale swallow in one gulp, counting the Mariner himself and each thing he had with him? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, many separate things · **What happens:** count, do, have · **To what, where:** Whale swallow, one gulp, Mariner, thing This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 74 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got his Throat» 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/74-justso-whale-throat/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:t14:1 # text = ★★★ Count carefully: how many separate things did the Whale swallow in one gulp, counting the Mariner himself and each thing he had with him? 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 Count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 swallow swallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 gulp gulp NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Mariner Mariner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | infinitive | ★ | | | | | carefully *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **do** | past | many separate things | the Whale swallow | | one gulp | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swallow=Eventuality | | 3 | **count** | gerund | many separate things *not said here* | the Mariner | | | | ★ *obl* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mariner=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | ★ | each thing *not said here* | | | | with him *= he* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | 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} Five, but counting the Whale's sea water and biscuit tin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:t14:o1:1 # text = Five, but counting the Whale's sea water and biscuit tin 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 4 counting count VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 biscuit biscuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | gerund | | the Whale's sea water and biscuit | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} One ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:t14:o2:1 # text = One 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Seven things in all: the Mariner, his raft, and the fish ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:t14:o3:1 # text = Seven things in all: the Mariner, his raft, and the fish 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Mariner Mariner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 raft raft NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Five ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:t14:o4:1 # text = Five 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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