--- title: ★★★ The Leopard says Giraffe is "about seventeen feet high" and Zebr… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ The Leopard says Giraffe is "about seventeen feet high" and Zebra "about four and a half feet high". How much taller is Giraffe? 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How much taller is Giraffe? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, Giraffe · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** four half feet, much Giraffe · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 77 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 1 (the game goes into the forest)» 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/77-justso-leopard-spots-1/#t14). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ The Leopard says Giraffe is "about seventeen feet high" and Zebra "about four and a half feet high". ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:77-justso-leopard-spots-1:t14:1 # text = ★★★ The Leopard says Giraffe is "about seventeen feet high" and Zebra "about four and a half feet high". 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Leopard Leopard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Giraffe Giraffe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 seventeen seventeen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 Zebra Zebra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 23 compound _ _ 23 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★ ★ the Leopard | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Giraffe | | | | | seventeen feet *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** *in a quote* | | Giraffe *not said here* | four half feet | | | | | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* How much taller is Giraffe? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:77-justso-leopard-spots-1:t14:2 # text = How much taller is Giraffe? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 Giraffe Giraffe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | much Giraffe | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Thirteen and a half feet ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:77-justso-leopard-spots-1:t14:o1:1 # text = Thirteen and a half feet 1 Thirteen thirteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 5 compound _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Twenty-one and a half feet ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:77-justso-leopard-spots-1:t14:o2:1 # text = Twenty-one and a half feet 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 7 compound _ _ 7 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Twelve and a half feet ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:77-justso-leopard-spots-1:t14:o3:1 # text = Twelve and a half feet 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 5 compound _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Eleven and a half feet ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:77-justso-leopard-spots-1:t14:o4:1 # text = Eleven and a half feet 1 Eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 5 compound _ _ 5 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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