--- title: Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Hu… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 42 «Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo» of the language course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved»,… # Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo The 16 questions of lesson 42 «Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Humph!» and the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 88 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/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/t1/) — «why does he keep saying the same Dingo line, is he lazy or what» What is the better answer? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/t2/) — Mia writes «the silly, slippery, slithering snake». Which of Kipling's tricks is she using? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/t3/) — ★★ Which word is NOT a clipped word? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/t4/) — «Kipling can't spell, 'curtiosity' isn't even a word» What would you say? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/t5/) — A comic has «CRASH!», «BANG!» and «WHOOSH!». What are these words called? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/t6/) — Grandad grumbles «don't mind him, he's got the hump». What does he mean? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/t7/) — ★★ Your friend says «a leopard can't change its spots» about a boy who keeps cheating. What does she mean? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/t8/) — «bruv he cried crocodile tears when he lost the game, proper actor» What does that mean? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/t9/) — ★ Kipling's Stone Age names describe the person, like Tegumai's «Man-who-does-not-put-his-foot-forward-in-a-hurry». What would a Stone Age name for a boy who is always hungry look like? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/t10/) — A scientist calls an idea «a just-so story». What does she mean? — right ✓ · ★★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/t11/) — ★★★ Kipling writes «the Djinn in charge of All Deserts» with capitals. What does that do? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/t12/) — «'Stute» drops letters from the front of the word. Which of these drops letters from the front too? — wrong ✗ · ★★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/e1/) — Identify the device employed in the phrase «the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River». — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the word «'Stute»? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the account given of the Camel's hump. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/e4/) — Ascertain the meaning of the expression «a month of Sundays». — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [41. 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