--- title: ★★★ "Say that quickly aloud": "speckled and sprottled and spottled,… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ "Say that quickly aloud": "speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched". How many of these shadow words are there? 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How many of these shadow words are there? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many · **What happens:** speckle, sprottl, spottl, dot, splash, slash This is test 16 · ★ 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/#t16). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ "Say that quickly aloud": "speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched". ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:77-justso-leopard-spots-1:t16:1 # text = ★★★ "Say that quickly aloud": "speckled and sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched". 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Say say INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 nsubj _ _ 7 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 speckled speckle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sprottled sprottl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 spottled spottl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 dotted dot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 splashed splash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 slashed slash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 hatched hatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 cross-hatched cross-hatched ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speckle** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sprottl** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **spottl** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **dot** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **splash** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **slash** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **hatch** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | 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 many of these shadow words are there? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:77-justso-leopard-spots-1:t16:2 # text = How many of these shadow words are there? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 5 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | many of this shadow words | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Eight ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:77-justso-leopard-spots-1:t16:o1:1 # text = Eight 1 Eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Six ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:77-justso-leopard-spots-1:t16:o2:1 # text = Six 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Nine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:77-justso-leopard-spots-1:t16:o3:1 # text = Nine 1 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Seven ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:77-justso-leopard-spots-1:t16:o4:1 # text = Seven 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` 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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