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title: Looking back: what did the Otter say Toad had «no» of in chapter I? — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: what did the Otter say Toad had «no» of in chapter I? Test 9 · ★★ 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 e
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# Test 9 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road…

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Looking back: what did the Otter say Toad had «no» of in chapter I?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Otter, Toad · **What happens:** look back, say, have · **To what, where:** no, chapter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t9:1
# text = Looking back: what did the Otter say Toad had «no» of in chapter I?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	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	Otter	Otter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund | the Otter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the Otter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Toad | no |  | chapter |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent no=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Stability

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t9:o1:1
# text = Stability
1	Stability	stability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Common sense and steady habits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t9:o2:1
# text = Common sense and steady habits
1	Common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Good manners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t9:o3:1
# text = Good manners
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Patience

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop:t9:o4:1
# text = Patience
1	Patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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