--- title: Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Books description: The 20 test and exam questions of lesson 79 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:… # Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?) The 20 questions of lesson 79 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 1 (What does the Crocodile have for dinner?)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with their options, 118 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t1/) — Ethan says: "The Elephant's Child was a naughty kid who never said please." Put him right. — right ✓ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t2/) — Molly, Gen Alpha: "Crocodile was like 'come here bestie, I'll whisper', sus much?" ("sus" = suspicious.) Why should the Elephant's Child have been careful? — right ✓ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t3/) — What would have happened if the Elephant's Child had not leaned close to hear the whisper? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t4/) — True or false: the Elephant's Child knew what a Crocodile looked like before his trip. — right ✓ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t5/) — Nana, Kerry: "Ah, the poor craythur, sure he only wanted to know." ("craythur" = creature.) Why did everybody say "Hush!" to his question? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t6/) — Big bro, rough: "Seventeen melons, a hundred pounds of bananas? He's a proper greedy guts, that one." Why did he take so much food? — right ✓ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t7/) — The Elephant's Child asks the Python if he has seen a Crocodile. What does the scornful Python answer, after "Have I seen a Crocodile?" — right ✓ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t8/) — Gen Z cousin: "Elephant's Child really said 'I suppose this is the same thing' after the snake spanked him, he's so unbothered." What "same thing" did he mean? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t9/) — The Leopard story had a puzzle-word, "spots". What is Kipling's word game in "satiable curtiosity"? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t10/) — The Mariner in the Whale story was "a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity". Which is true of the Elephant's Child so far? — right ✓ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t11/) — In the Camel story, the Horse, Dog and Ox each came and spoke to the Camel in turn. Who comes to the Elephant's Child in turn with spanks? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t12/) — Sipho, South Africa: "The Limpopo? That's lekker far from Graham's Town, hey." ("lekker" = really, very.) Which way did the Elephant's Child walk? — right ✓ · ★ - [t13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t13/) — Why is it funny that the Elephant's Child "helped to coil him up on the rock again" just after the Python spanked him? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t14/) — ★★★ He took a hundred pounds of bananas and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane. How many pounds is that in all, not counting the melons? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t15/) — ★★★ The Crocodile winked "one eye", then "the other eye". Read carefully: what did he do just after the second wink? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/t16/) — ★★★ Spankers before the trip: his father, his mother, the Ostrich, the Giraffe, the Hippopotamus and the Baboon. Which of the four options is NOT one of his aunts or uncles? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/e1/) — Identify the question which provoked the universal response of "Hush!" from the relations of the Elephant's Child. — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/e2/) — Ascertain the reason for which the Elephant's Child discarded the rind of the melons along his route. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/e3/) — Select the response that most accurately characterises the expression "crocodile tears" in contemporary usage. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/e4/) — State, in accordance with established zoology, the customary method of predation employed by the Nile crocodile. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [78. 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