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title: ★★★ The Leopard did not want to look like Zebra, nor like Giraffe wi… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ The Leopard did not want to look like Zebra, nor like Giraffe with "vulgar-big" spots. Which pattern did that leave him? Test 16 · ★★ 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 M
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# Test 16 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

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★★★ The Leopard did not want to look like Zebra, nor like Giraffe with "vulgar-big" spots. Which pattern did that leave him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, big spots, pattern · **What happens:** not want, look, leave · **To what, where:** big spots, ★

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This is test 16 · ★★ 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/#t16).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ The Leopard did not want to look like Zebra, nor like Giraffe with "vulgar-big" spots.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t16:1
# text = ★★★ The Leopard did not want to look like Zebra, nor like Giraffe with "vulgar-big" spots.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	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	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | ★ ★ the Leopard | big spots |  |  |  | like Giraffe | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | big spots *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like Zebra | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:* Which pattern did that leave him?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t16:2
# text = Which pattern did that leave him?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · do-support | which pattern | ★ |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Large spots far apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t16:o1:1
# text = Large spots far apart
1	Large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Small spots close together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t16:o2:1
# text = Small spots close together
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | present | Small spots |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Spots like the Zebra's stripes but made into small round blotches all over his body and tail

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t16:o3:1
# text = Spots like the Zebra's stripes but made into small round blotches all over his body and tail
1	Spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	blotches	blotch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle · passive |  | Spots like the Zebra's stripes |  | small round blotches over Zebra's body and tail |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into blotch=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Spots like the Giraffe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t16:o4:1
# text = Spots like the Giraffe
1	Spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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