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title: «funguses on stumps resembled caricatures». Is the Mole scared of th… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «funguses on stumps resembled caricatures». Is the Mole scared of them at first? Test 14 · ★★ of lesson 33 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 14 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Woo…

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«funguses on stumps resembled caricatures». Is the Mole scared of them at first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** funguses, Mole · **What happens:** resemble, be, scare · **To what, where:** caricatures, Mole

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This is test 14 · ★★ of lesson 33 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» 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/33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood/#t14).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «funguses on stumps resembled caricatures».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood:t14:1
# text = «funguses on stumps resembled caricatures».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	funguses	funguse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	stumps	stump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	caricatures	caricature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** *in a quote* | past | funguses on stumps | caricatures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Is the Mole scared of them at first?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood:t14:2
# text = Is the Mole scared of them at first?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	scared	scare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Mole |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scare** | past | the Mole |  |  |  |  | of funguses *= funguse* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, they frightened him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood:t14:o1:1
# text = Yes, they frightened him
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | past | they | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No — «that was all fun»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood:t14:o2:1
# text = No — «that was all fun»
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
2	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | that |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, a lot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood:t14:o3:1
# text = Yes, a lot
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Not at all, he ran

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood:t14:o4:1
# text = Not at all, he ran
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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