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description: What would have happened if the Camel had listened to the Djinn's warning? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 75 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 3 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got hi…

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What would have happened if the Camel had listened to the Djinn's warning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Camel, Djinn · **What happens:** happen, listen, warn

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 75 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got his Hump» 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/75-justso-camel-hump/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t3:1
# text = What would have happened if the Camel had listened to the Djinn's warning?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **listen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | the Camel |  |  |  |  | to the Djinn's warning | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to warning=Theme |
| 3 | **warn** |  | the Djinn |  |  |  |  |  | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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He would have worked hard every single day and never been lazy or grumpy again in his whole life

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t3:o1:1
# text = He would have worked hard every single day and never been lazy or grumpy again in his whole life
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | would · perfect | He |  |  |  | again; day | in his whole life; hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in life=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | participle | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He would have worked hard every day and never been lazy or grumpy again for the rest of his life

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t3:o2:1
# text = He would have worked hard every day and never been lazy or grumpy again for the rest of his life
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | would · perfect | He |  |  |  | again; day | for the rest of his life; hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rest=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **not** **is** | participle | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He would have worked all week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t3:o3:1
# text = He would have worked all week
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | would · perfect | He |  |  |  | week |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He might never have got his hump

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t3:o4:1
# text = He might never have got his hump
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | might · perfect | He | his hump |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hump=Stimulus |

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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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