--- title: «'Stute» drops letters from the front of the word. Which of these dr… — Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved»,… · tree and pragmatics description: «'Stute» drops letters from the front of the word. Which of these drops letters from the front too? Test 12 · ★★★ 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 the dependen --- [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/t12/) [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»,…](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 # Test 12 · ★★★ · Kipling's word games: «Best Beloved», the 'Stute Fish, «Hu… «'Stute» drops letters from the front of the word. Which of these drops letters from the front too? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Stute · **What happens:** drop · **To what, where:** letters, front This is test 12 · ★★★ 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. 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/language/42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* «'Stute» drops letters from the front of the word. ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo:t12:1 # text = «'Stute» drops letters from the front of the word. 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Stute Stute PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | Stute | letters | | the front of the word | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from front=Destination | 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:* Which of these drops letters from the front too? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo:t12:2 # text = Which of these drops letters from the front too? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 4 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 compound _ _ 5 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Maths, from mathematics ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo:t12:o1:1 # text = Maths, from mathematics 1 Maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 mathematics mathematics NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Exam, from examination ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo:t12:o2:1 # text = Exam, from examination 1 Exam exam NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 examination examination NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Bus, from omnibus ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo:t12:o3:1 # text = Bus, from omnibus 1 Bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 omnibus omnibus NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Gym, from gymnasium ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:42-kipling-s-word-games-best-beloved-stute-fish-humph-and-the-great-grey-green-greasy-limpopo:t12:o4:1 # text = Gym, from gymnasium 1 Gym gym NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 gymnasium gymnasium NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` 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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