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title: What would have happened if the Leopard had chosen stripes? — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would have happened if the Leopard had chosen stripes? Test 3 · ★★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 4: How the Leopard got…

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What would have happened if the Leopard had chosen stripes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Leopard · **What happens:** happen, choose · **To what, where:** stripes

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This is test 3 · ★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t3:1
# text = What would have happened if the Leopard had chosen stripes?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Leopard	Leopard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | the Leopard | stripes |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He would have been eaten by the hunter for breakfast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t3:o1:1
# text = He would have been eaten by the hunter for breakfast
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | would · perfect · passive | the hunter | He |  |  |  | for breakfast | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He would have looked like the Zebra, which he did not want

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t3:o2:1
# text = He would have looked like the Zebra, which he did not want
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | would · perfect | He |  |  |  |  | like the Zebra | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | Zebra | the Zebra |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He would have looked exactly like the Zebra standing among the thorn-bushes in the sunlight, which he did not want at all, as the hunter had said

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t3:o3:1
# text = He would have looked exactly like the Zebra standing among the thorn-bushes in the sunlight, which he did not want at all, as the hunter had said
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Zebra	Zebra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	standing	standing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | would · perfect | He |  |  |  |  | like the Zebra standing; among the thorn bushes in the sunlight; exactly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among bush=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | he | the sunlight |  | all |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the hunter |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He would have been hunted by every zebra in the veldt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:78-justso-leopard-spots-2:t3:o4:1
# text = He would have been hunted by every zebra in the veldt
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	veldt	veldt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | would · perfect · passive | every zebra | He |  | the veldt |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in veldt=Location |

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