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title: ★★★ How many nights do they spend on the road before the motor-car (… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ How many nights do they spend on the road before the motor-car (the car comes on the third afternoon)? Test 15 · ★★ 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
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# Test 15 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road…

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★★★ How many nights do they spend on the road before the motor-car (the car comes on the third afternoon)?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, car · **What happens:** spend, come · **To what, where:** road, motor car

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This is test 15 · ★★ 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/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t15:1
# text = ★★★ How many nights do they spend on the road before the motor-car (the car comes on the third afternoon)?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | present · do-support | ★ |  |  |  | before the motor car | on the road *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on road=Goal |
| 2 | **come** | present | the car | the motor car *not said here* |  |  | afternoon |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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0

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t15:o1:1
# text = 0
1	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t15:o2:1
# text = 1
1	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t15:o3:1
# text = 2
1	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t15:o4:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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