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title: Looking back: in the Elephant's Child, who was never touched by the… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: in the Elephant's Child, who was never touched by the Elephant's Child in his spanking spree? Test 14 · ★★ of lesson 95 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» of the books course of Mova's pr
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# Test 14 · ★★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: t…

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Looking back: in the Elephant's Child, who was never touched by the Elephant's Child in his spanking spree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Child · **What happens:** look back, not touch, spree · **To what, where:** Child

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This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 95 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 3: the third word, the Man, the Dog, and how cats really came to live with us» 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/95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t14:1
# text = Looking back: in the Elephant's Child, who was never touched by the Elephant's Child in his spanking spree?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Elephant	Elephant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	spanking	spanking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	spree	spree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in the Elephant's Child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in child=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | past · passive | the Elephant's Child in Child's spanking spree | the Elephant's Child |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **spree** |  | Child |  |  |  |  |  | nom spree «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The Giraffe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t14:o1:1
# text = The Giraffe
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giraffe	Giraffe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Ostrich

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t14:o2:1
# text = The Ostrich
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ostrich	Ostrich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Baboon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t14:o3:1
# text = The Baboon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Baboon	Baboon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Kolokolo Bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:95-justso-cat-3-the-cat-walks-by-himself:t14:o4:1
# text = Kolokolo Bird
1	Kolokolo	Kolokolo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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