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title: Looking back: the Elephant's Child set off with a hundred pounds of… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: the Elephant's Child set off with a hundred pounds of bananas. What does Tegumai carry in his mendy-bag? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 84 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with t
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# Test 13 · ★ · Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1:…

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Looking back: the Elephant's Child set off with a hundred pounds of bananas. What does Tegumai carry in his mendy-bag?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Child, Tegumai · **What happens:** look back, set off, carry · **To what, where:** mendy bag

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 84 «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 1: a broken spear and a picture on birch-bark» 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/84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear/#t13).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Looking back: the Elephant's Child set off with a hundred pounds of bananas.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear:t13:1
# text = Looking back: the Elephant's Child set off with a hundred pounds of bananas.
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund | the Elephant's Child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **set off** | past | the Elephant's Child |  |  |  |  | with hundred pounds of bananas | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does Tegumai carry in his mendy-bag?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear:t13:2
# text = What does Tegumai carry in his mendy-bag?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Tegumai	Tegumai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mendy	mendy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present · do-support | Tegumai |  |  | Tegumai's mendy bag |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Value in bag=Location |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Fish-hooks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear:t13:o1:1
# text = Fish-hooks
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Sinews, leather strips, bee's-wax and resin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear:t13:o2:1
# text = Sinews, leather strips, bee's-wax and resin
1	Sinews	sinew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	bee's	bee'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	resin	resin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Roots, berries, a knife and a flint

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear:t13:o3:1
# text = Roots, berries, a knife and a flint
1	Roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flint	flint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dried fish, a knife and some spare beads

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:84-justso-first-letter-1-a-broken-spear:t13:o4:1
# text = Dried fish, a knife and some spare beads
1	Dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	spare	spare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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