--- title: ★★★ He took a hundred pounds of bananas and a hundred pounds of suga… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5:… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ 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? Test 14 · ★ 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 --- [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/t14/) [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:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/79-justso-elephants-child-1/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child… ★★★ 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? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ · **What happens:** take, not count · **To what, where:** hundred pounds, melons This is test 14 · ★ 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. 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/#t14). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ He took a hundred pounds of bananas and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:79-justso-elephants-child-1:t14:1 # text = ★★★ He took a hundred pounds of bananas and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ PUNCT `` _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 cane cane NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | ★ ★ | hundred pounds of bananas and hundred pounds of sugar cane | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many pounds is that in all, not counting the melons? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:79-justso-elephants-child-1:t14:2 # text = How many pounds is that in all, not counting the melons? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 melons melon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **count** | gerund | | the melons | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Fifty ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:79-justso-elephants-child-1:t14:o1:1 # text = Fifty 1 Fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Two hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:79-justso-elephants-child-1:t14:o2:1 # text = Two hundred 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Ninety ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:79-justso-elephants-child-1:t14:o3:1 # text = Ninety 1 Ninety ninety NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Four hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:79-justso-elephants-child-1:t14:o4:1 # text = Four hundred 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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