--- title: Looking back: what did the Rat promise Toad's crazes always do? — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking back: what did the Rat promise Toad's crazes always do? Test 13 · ★★ of lesson 31 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/t13/) [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/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road… Looking back: what did the Rat promise Toad's crazes always do? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** crazes, Toad · **What happens:** look back, do, craze · **To what, where:** Rat promise This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 31 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» 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/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t13:1 # text = Looking back: what did the Rat promise Toad's crazes always do? 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 crazes craze NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 13 advmod _ _ 13 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **do** | past | | the Rat promise | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality | | 3 | **do** | present | Toad's crazes | the Rat promise *not said here* | | | | always *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality | | 4 | **craze** | | Toad | | | | | | nom craze «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 {#o1} Ended in a terrible accident ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t13:o1:1 # text = Ended in a terrible accident 1 Ended end VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | participle | | | | a terrible accident | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ### Option 2 {#o2} Last until he was bored and then ended quietly in the autumn ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t13:o2:1 # text = Last until he was bored and then ended quietly in the autumn 1 Last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 until until SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 advcl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 8 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 9 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | he | | | | | bored *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **end** | past | | | | | then; autumn | quietly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Left him feeling very sorry ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t13:o3:1 # text = Left him feeling very sorry 1 Left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 xcomp _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | | him *= he* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | gerund | him *= he* *not said here* | | | | | sorry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Never take very long ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t13:o4:1 # text = Never take very long 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | **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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