--- title: Why does the Mariner rhyme "grating" with "ating"? — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:… · tree and pragmatics description: Why does the Mariner rhyme "grating" with "ating"? Test 9 · ★ 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 question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Whale got hi… Why does the Mariner rhyme "grating" with "ating"? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Mariner rhyme This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:t9:1 # text = Why does the Mariner rhyme "grating" with "ating"? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Mariner Mariner PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 grating grating NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ating ating NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | | the Mariner rhyme | | | | with ating | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Eventuality | 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 {#o1} Kipling jokes that he is Irish and says "eating" that way, as the poem's rhymes often do in Hibernian speech ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:t9:o1:1 # text = Kipling jokes that he is Irish and says "eating" that way, as the poem's rhymes often do in Hibernian speech 1 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 jokes joke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 rhymes rhyme NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 Hibernian Hibernian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | Kipling | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Kipling | | | | | irish *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kipling *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | gerund | Kipling *not said here* | that way | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | present | the poem's rhymes | | | Hibernian speech | | often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **rhyme** | | the poem | | | | | | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Because in old English both words meant exactly the same sea creature and the rhyme was once standard ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:t9:o2:1 # text = Because in old English both words meant exactly the same sea creature and the rhyme was once standard 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 7 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 18 advmod _ _ 18 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | past | | | | | | in both old English words | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in word=Attribute | | 2 | **is** | past | the same sea creature and the rhyme | | | | | once, standard *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Kipling jokes that he is Irish and says "eating" that way ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:t9:o3:1 # text = Kipling jokes that he is Irish and says "eating" that way 1 Kipling Kipling PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 jokes joke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | Kipling | that way | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Kipling | | | | | irish *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kipling *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Because the words are both spelled alike ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:74-justso-whale-throat:t9:o4:1 # text = Because the words are both spelled alike 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 both both ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 alike alike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spell** | present · passive | | the words | | | | alike, both *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme | **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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