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title: Real life: Kipling has Dog, then Horse, then Cow. What is closer to… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: Kipling has Dog, then Horse, then Cow. What is closer to the true order? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 93 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: t…

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Real life: Kipling has Dog, then Horse, then Cow. What is closer to the true order?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Kipling · **What happens:** have, cow, be · **To what, where:** Dog

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 93 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 1: the First Friend and the First Servant» 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/93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Real life: Kipling has Dog, then Horse, then Cow.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t9:1
# text = Real life: Kipling has Dog, then Horse, then Cow.
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	Cow	cow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Kipling | Dog and Horse |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **cow** | infinitive | Kipling *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is closer to the true order?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t9:2
# text = What is closer to the true order?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the true order; close *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Dog first, then horse and cow, and sheep and pigs and goats all at the same time

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t9:o1:1
# text = Dog first, then horse and cow, and sheep and pigs and goats all at the same time
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cow first; sheep and pigs; dog and horse later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t9:o2:1
# text = Cow first; sheep and pigs; dog and horse later
1	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Horse first; dog and cow together much later on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t9:o3:1
# text = Horse first; dog and cow together much later on
1	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Dog first; cows, sheep and pigs; horses much later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant:t9:o4:1
# text = Dog first; cows, sheep and pigs; horses much later
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
```

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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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