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title: Identify the question which provoked the universal response of "Hush… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the question which provoked the universal response of "Hush!" from the relations of the Elephant's Child. Exam question 1 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
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# Exam question 1 · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…

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Identify the question which provoked the universal response of "Hush!" from the relations of the Elephant's Child.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, question · **What happens:** identify, provoke · **To what, where:** question, relations, universal response

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This is exam question 1 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, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/79-justso-elephants-child-1/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:79-justso-elephants-child-1:e1:1
# text = Identify the question which provoked the universal response of "Hush!" from the relations of the Elephant's Child.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	provoked	provoke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Hush	hush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the question |  | the relations of the Elephant's Child |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent question=Theme |
| 2 | **provoke** | past | the question | the universal response of Hush |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus response=Experiencer |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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What the Crocodile has for dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:79-justso-elephants-child-1:e1:o1:1
# text = What the Crocodile has for dinner
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Crocodile |  |  |  |  | for dinner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Python's tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:79-justso-elephants-child-1:e1:o2:1
# text = The Python's tail
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Python	Python	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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How the Ostrich got her feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:79-justso-elephants-child-1:e1:o3:1
# text = How the Ostrich got her feathers
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Ostrich	Ostrich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the Ostrich | Ostrich's feathers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Melon rind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:79-justso-elephants-child-1:e1:o4:1
# text = Melon rind
1	Melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	rind	rind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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