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title: Aisha, Singapore: "The Rhino so rude one, take cake also never say s… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 12 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros g…

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Aisha, Singapore: "The Rhino so rude one, take cake also never say sorry, lah." ("lah" just adds feeling.) Which other animal in the book so far was also rude and never learned to behave?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lah, other animal · **What happens:** take, not say, add, be, not learn, behave · **To what, where:** cake, sorry, feeling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 76 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» 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/76-justso-rhinoceros-skin/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Aisha, Singapore: "The Rhino so rude one, take cake also never say sorry, lah."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t12:1
# text = Aisha, Singapore: "The Rhino so rude one, take cake also never say sorry, lah."
1	Aisha	Aisha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Singapore	Singapore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
13	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	lah	lah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | cake |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | sorry |  |  |  | lah *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |

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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:* ("lah" just adds feeling.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t12:2
# text = ("lah" just adds feeling.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	lah	lah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | lah | feeling |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient |

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*Sentence 3:* Which other animal in the book so far was also rude and never learned to behave?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t12:3
# text = Which other animal in the book so far was also rude and never learned to behave?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	behave	behave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | which other animal in the book |  |  |  |  | far, rude *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **learn** | past | which other animal in the book *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **behave** | to-infinitive | which other animal in the book *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Djinn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t12:o1:1
# text = Djinn
1	Djinn	Djinn	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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The Mariner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t12:o2:1
# text = The Mariner
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The Camel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t12:o3:1
# text = The Camel
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	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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The Parsee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t12:o4:1
# text = The Parsee
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Parsee	Parsee	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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