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title: Ali, bit sus (suspicious) of it: «the Rat said everyone in the Wild… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ali, bit sus (suspicious) of it: «the Rat said everyone in the Wild Wood is nasty, innit.» Is he right? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 26 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the d
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# Test 6 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank…

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Ali, bit sus (suspicious) of it: «the Rat said everyone in the Wild Wood is nasty, innit.» Is he right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ali, Rat · **What happens:** be, say, innit · **To what, where:** everyone, Wild Wood · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 26 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» 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/26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ali, bit sus (suspicious) of it: «the Rat said everyone in the Wild Wood is nasty, innit.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood:t6:1
# text = Ali, bit sus (suspicious) of it: «the Rat said everyone in the Wild Wood is nasty, innit.»
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sus	suspect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	19	flat	_	_
19	Wood	Wood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	innit	innit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ali |  |  |  |  | suspect *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Ali *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of it | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Rat | everyone |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent everyone=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | the Wild Wood |  | nasty *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **innit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* Is he right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood:t6:2
# text = Is he right?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Rat |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Not really, only the weasels are nasty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood:t6:o1:1
# text = Not really, only the weasels are nasty
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, all of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood:t6:o2:1
# text = Yes, all of them
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, the foxes and weasels are bad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood:t6:o3:1
# text = Yes, the foxes and weasels are bad
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the foxes and weasels |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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No: squirrels are «all right», and Badger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood:t6:o4:1
# text = No: squirrels are «all right», and Badger
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | no squirrels |  |  |  |  | Badger *obl*; all, right *property* | tree rules |

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