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title: True or false: the Djinn gives the Camel the hump only to punish him. — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2:… · tree and pragmatics
description: True or false: the Djinn gives the Camel the hump only to punish him. Test 5 · ★ 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 choice was
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# Test 5 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got hi…

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True or false: the Djinn gives the Camel the hump only to punish him.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Djinn · **What happens:** give, punish · **To what, where:** Camel, Djinn

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t5:1
# text = True or false: the Djinn gives the Camel the hump only to punish him.
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hump	hump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the Djinn | the Camel |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent camel=Recipient hump=Theme |
| 2 | **punish** | to-infinitive | the Djinn *not said here* | Djinn |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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True: he got it as a punishment for being rude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t5:o1:1
# text = True: he got it as a punishment for being rude
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	csubj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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True, only punishment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t5:o2:1
# text = True, only punishment
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	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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True: the Djinn only punishes, nothing more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t5:o3:1
# text = True: the Djinn only punishes, nothing more
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	punishes	punish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | present | the Djinn | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |

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

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False: it also lets him work three days without eating

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t5:o4:1
# text = False: it also lets him work three days without eating
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | it | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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