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title: Granny in the Black Country: "That Camel day do a thing all week, ba… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Granny in the Black Country: "That Camel day do a thing all week, bab." ("day" = didn't, "bab" = dear.) On which day did the work begin? Test 8 · ★ 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 a
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# Test 8 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 2: How the Camel got hi…

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Granny in the Black Country: "That Camel day do a thing all week, bab." ("day" = didn't, "bab" = dear.) On which day did the work begin?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** day · **What happens:** do, not do, begin · **To what, where:** thing, bab, work

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Granny in the Black Country: "That Camel day do a thing all week, bab."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t8:1
# text = Granny in the Black Country: "That Camel day do a thing all week, bab."
1	Granny	Granny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	Camel	Camel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bab	bab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present |  | a thing |  |  | day; week |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* ("day" = didn't, "bab" = dear.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t8:2
# text = ("day" = didn't, "bab" = dear.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	=	=	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bab	bab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	13	punct	_	_
13	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past | day | bab |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* On which day did the work begin?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t8:3
# text = On which day did the work begin?
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the work |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Monday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t8:o1:1
# text = Monday
1	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t8:o2:1
# text = Sun
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	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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Saturday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t8:o3:1
# text = Saturday
1	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tuesday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:75-justso-camel-hump:t8:o4:1
# text = Tuesday
1	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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