--- title: ★★★ The Kangaroo's hops went one yard, three yards, five yards. If t… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6:… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ The Kangaroo's hops went one yard, three yards, five yards. If the pattern went on, how long would the next hop be? Test 14 · ★★ of lesson 81 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/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), 6:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old… ★★★ The Kangaroo's hops went one yard, three yards, five yards. If the pattern went on, how long would the next hop be? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, Kangaroo, pattern, next hop · **What happens:** go, hop, go on, be · **To what, where:** one yard This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 81 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 6: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo» 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/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/#t14). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ The Kangaroo's hops went one yard, three yards, five yards. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:81-justso-old-man-kangaroo:t14:1 # text = ★★★ The Kangaroo's hops went one yard, three yards, five yards. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Kangaroo Kangaroo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 hops hop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | ★ | one yard and three yards and five yards | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yard=Theme | | 2 | **hop** | | the Kangaroo | | | | | | nom hop «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:* If the pattern went on, how long would the next hop be? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:81-justso-old-man-kangaroo:t14:2 # text = If the pattern went on, how long would the next hop be? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 on on ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 8 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 9 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 hop hop NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go on** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the pattern | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **be** | would | the next hop | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Seven feet ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:81-justso-old-man-kangaroo:t14:o1:1 # text = Seven feet 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nine ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:81-justso-old-man-kangaroo:t14:o2:1 # text = Nine 1 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Seven yards, then nine, then eleven, growing without end ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:81-justso-old-man-kangaroo:t14:o3:1 # text = Seven yards, then nine, then eleven, growing without end 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 5 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 8 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 11 without without ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | gerund | | | | | without end | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Seven yards ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:81-justso-old-man-kangaroo:t14:o4:1 # text = Seven yards 1 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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