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title: Which character in the first two stories was really clever, like the… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which character in the first two stories was really clever, like the Parsee? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 76 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros g…

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Which character in the first two stories was really clever, like the Parsee?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** character · **What happens:** be

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t13:1
# text = Which character in the first two stories was really clever, like the Parsee?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	really	really	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | which character in the first two stories |  |  |  |  | like the Parsee; clever *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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The Mariner, a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, who tricked the Whale

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t13:o1:1
# text = The Mariner, a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, who tricked the Whale
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	infinite	infinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	resource	resource	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tricked	trick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | past | the Mariner | the Whale |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The Rhino, a beast of little sense

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t13:o2:1
# text = The Rhino, a beast of little sense
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Djinn, a man of great sagacity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t13:o3:1
# text = The Djinn, a man of great sagacity
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Djinn	Djinn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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The Mariner, a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t13:o4:1
# text = The Mariner, a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mariner	Mariner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	infinite	infinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	resource	resource	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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