--- title: Looking back: what did the Rat say «It's my world, and I don't want… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking back: what did the Rat say «It's my world, and I don't want any other» about? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 30 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/t11/) [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 II, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road… Looking back: what did the Rat say «It's my world, and I don't want any other» about? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Rat · **What happens:** look back, say, be, not want · **To what, where:** world, other · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 30 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» 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/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart:t11:1 # text = Looking back: what did the Rat say «It's my world, and I don't want any other» about? 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 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 20 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look back** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the Rat | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Rat | my world | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Rat *= rat* | any other | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot other=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} Sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart:t11:o1:1 # text = Sea 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Home ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart:t11:o2:1 # text = Home 1 Home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The big road ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart:t11:o3:1 # text = The big road 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The River ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart:t11:o4:1 # text = The River 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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