--- title: What would a polite animal on the river bank say when a friend sudde… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: What would a polite animal on the river bank say when a friend suddenly disappears? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 27 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/t9/) [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/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank… What would a polite animal on the river bank say when a friend suddenly disappears? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** polite animal, friend · **What happens:** say, disappear · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 27 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» 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/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad:t9:1 # text = What would a polite animal on the river bank say when a friend suddenly disappears? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 disappears disappear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | a polite animal on the river bank | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **disappear** | present | a friend | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Well, that's odd ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad:t9:o1:1 # text = Well, that's odd 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | that | | | | | odd *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Nothing at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad:t9:o2:1 # text = Nothing at all 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Hello ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad:t9:o3:1 # text = Hello 1 Hello hello INTJ UH _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Goodbye, old friend ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad:t9:o4:1 # text = Goodbye, old friend 1 Goodbye goodbye NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 friend friend 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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