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title: ★★★ The hunter's fingers make "five little black marks" each time. I… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ The hunter's fingers make "five little black marks" each time. If he pressed his hand on the Leopard ten times and the fingers never slipped, how many marks would there be? Test 14 · ★★ of lesson 78 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, an
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# Test 14 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

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★★★ The hunter's fingers make "five little black marks" each time. If he pressed his hand on the Leopard ten times and the fingers never slipped, how many marks would there be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, fingers, many marks · **What happens:** make, press, not slip, be · **To what, where:** five little black marks, hand

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This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 78 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got his Spots, part 2 (One, two, three, and where's your breakfast?)» 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/78-justso-leopard-spots-2/#t14).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ The hunter's fingers make "five little black marks" each time.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t14:1
# text = ★★★ The hunter's fingers make "five little black marks" each time.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | ★ | five little black marks and each time |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:* If he pressed his hand on the Leopard ten times and the fingers never slipped, how many marks would there be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t14:2
# text = If he pressed his hand on the Leopard ten times and the fingers never slipped, how many marks would there be?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | past | ★ | ★'s hand |  |  | time | on the Leopard | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **slip** | past | the fingers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | would | many marks |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Fifty-five marks, if one more was added by the hunter's thumb

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t14:o1:1
# text = Fifty-five marks, if one more was added by the hunter's thumb
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive | the hunter's thumb | one more |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t14:o2:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t14:o3:1
# text = Ten
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Fifty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t14:o4:1
# text = Fifty
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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