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title: What would have happened if the Rhino had kept his skin on in the he… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would have happened if the Rhino had kept his skin on in the heat wave? Test 3 · ★ 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 3 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros g…

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What would have happened if the Rhino had kept his skin on in the heat wave?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, keep on · **To what, where:** Rhino, heat wave

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t3:1
# text = What would have happened if the Rhino had kept his skin on in the heat wave?
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	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	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 | **keep on** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | the Rhino |  | the heat wave |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme skin=Attribute |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The Parsee could not have filled it with crumbs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t3:o1:1
# text = The Parsee could not have filled it with crumbs
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fill** | could · perfect · passive |  | the Parsee |  |  |  | with crumbs | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The Rhino would have been cool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t3:o2:1
# text = The Rhino would have been cool
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | the Rhino |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Parsee could not have filled it with crumbs and so had no trick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t3:o3:1
# text = The Parsee could not have filled it with crumbs and so had no trick
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fill** | could · perfect · passive |  | the Parsee |  |  |  | with crumbs | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | no trick |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Parsee would not have found it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t3:o4:1
# text = The Parsee would not have found it
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Parsee	Parsee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** | would · perfect · passive |  | the Parsee |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme it=Attribute |

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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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