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# Test 7 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros g…

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Big sis, sarcastic: "Oh sure, scratching makes an itch go away, genius." What does the story say happened when the Rhino scratched?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Big sis, itch, story · **What happens:** scratch, make, go away, say · **To what, where:** itch, genius · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Big sis, sarcastic: "Oh sure, scratching makes an itch go away, genius."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t7:1
# text = Big sis, sarcastic: "Oh sure, scratching makes an itch go away, genius."
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sis	sis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sarcastic	sarcastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	scratching	scratch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	itch	itch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scratch** *in a quote* | gerund | Big sis and sarcastic *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Big sis and sarcastic | a itch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go away** *in a quote* | infinitive | a itch *not said here* | genius |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:* What does the story say happened when the Rhino scratched?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t7:2
# text = What does the story say happened when the Rhino scratched?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | the story |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scratch** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It made it go away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t7:o1:1
# text = It made it go away
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | It | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It made it worse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t7:o2:1
# text = It made it worse
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | It | it |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It stopped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t7:o3:1
# text = It stopped
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:76-justso-rhinoceros-skin:t7:o4:1
# text = Nothing
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

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