--- 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 80 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk)» 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 and pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/) [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 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk) The 20 questions of lesson 80 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with their options, 115 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/80-justso-elephants-child-2/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t1/) — Harry says: "The Elephant's Child pulled and the Crocodile let go cos he got bored." Put him right. — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t2/) — Priya, India: "Kindly do the needful and tell what is 'Vantage number two." ("do the needful" = do what is needed.) — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t3/) — What would have happened if the Snake had not helped? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t4/) — Lucy, Gen Z: "Elephant's Child really went home and threw hands with his whole fam, chaotic energy." ("threw hands" = started hitting, "fam" = family.) Why did his family stop spanking in the end? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t5/) — True or false: the Python-Rock-Snake was only ever nasty to the Elephant's Child. — right ✓ · ★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t6/) — Ahmed says: "Elephants stretched their noses a bit each day and passed it on to their babies, innit." Put him right. — right ✓ · ★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t7/) — Grandpa, Yorkshire: "Uncle Baboon said it were right ugly, and then got chucked int' hornets' nest, serves 'im right, eh?" What do we think about the Elephant's Child hitting back? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t8/) — Why did the Elephant's Child go "out of his way" to spank a Hippopotamus? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t9/) — Compare the Elephant's Child at the start and at the end. Which is true? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t10/) — In the Leopard story the animals' new looks came from hiding in shade; in this story the trunk came from a tug-of-war. In which earlier story did a helper tie something with a knot or a strap? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t11/) — Like the Camel's hump, the trunk at first looks like trouble. What do both turn out to be? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t12/) — Ben, Canada: "Crocodile's a total hoser, eh, but the Python's a beauty." ("hoser" = idiot, "beauty" = a great person.) Who said "Some people do not know what is good for them"? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t13/) — Older cousin: "Kipling says ten million serving-men, seven million Whys. That's her, our Ellie, never stops asking." What are the "serving-men" really? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t14/) — ★★★ In the poem the small girl keeps one million Hows, two million Wheres and seven million Whys. How many is that? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t15/) — ★★★ The poem says the six serving-men rest "from nine till five", "As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea". Trap: why does the poet rest them then? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/t16/) — ★★★ Read carefully: which of these did the Elephant's Child do on his walk home, BEFORE he reached his families? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/e1/) — Identify the creature which, by knotting itself about the hind legs of the Elephant's Child, secured his release from the Crocodile. — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/e2/) — Ascertain the purpose for which the Elephant's Child suspended his nose, wrapped in banana leaves, within the waters of the Limpopo. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/e3/) — Select the response that enumerates correctly the three advantages of the trunk identified by the Python-Rock-Snake. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/80-justso-elephants-child-2/e4/) — State, in accordance with established zoology, the anatomical composition of the trunk of an elephant. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [79. 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