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title: Looking back: in chapter I, who flooded the Rat's parlour-carpet wit… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: in chapter I, who flooded the Rat's parlour-carpet with their waves? Test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 13 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road…

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Looking back: in chapter I, who flooded the Rat's parlour-carpet with their waves?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** chapter, their · **What happens:** look back, flood, wave · **To what, where:** parlour carpet

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This is test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze)» 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/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze:t13:1
# text = Looking back: in chapter I, who flooded the Rat's parlour-carpet with their waves?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	flooded	flood	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	parlour	parlour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme |
| 2 | **flood** | past | chapter | the Rat's parlour carpet |  |  |  | with their waves | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent carpet=Patient with wave=Instrument |
| 3 | **wave** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Passing barges in the reeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze:t13:o1:1
# text = Passing barges in the reeds
1	Passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	barges	barge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund |  | barges |  | the reeds |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent barge=Theme in reed=Destination |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Careless boys on the bank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze:t13:o2:1
# text = Careless boys on the bank
1	Careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Old bottles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze:t13:o3:1
# text = Old bottles
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Steam-launches near the bank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze:t13:o4:1
# text = Steam-launches near the bank
1	Steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	launches	launch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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