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title: ★★★ Count the flowers named as actors in the summer play: loosestrif… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Count the flowers named as actors in the summer play: loosestrife, willow-herb, comfrey, dog-rose, meadow-sweet. Which arrives fourth? Test 15 · ★★ 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 prima
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# Test 15 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Woo…

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★★★ Count the flowers named as actors in the summer play: loosestrife, willow-herb, comfrey, dog-rose, meadow-sweet. Which arrives fourth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** count, name, arrive · **To what, where:** flowers, summer play, fourth

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This is test 15 · ★★ 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/#t15).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Count the flowers named as actors in the summer play: loosestrife, willow-herb, comfrey, dog-rose, meadow-sweet.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood:t15:1
# text = ★★★ Count the flowers named as actors in the summer play: loosestrife, willow-herb, comfrey, dog-rose, meadow-sweet.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	loosestrife	loosestrife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	comfrey	comfrey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | infinitive | ★ | the flowers and loosestrife and willow herb and comfrey and dog rose |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | the flowers and loosestrife and willow herb and comfrey and dog rose *not said here* |  | the summer play |  | as actors | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as actor=Attribute |

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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:* Which arrives fourth?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood:t15:2
# text = Which arrives fourth?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present |  | fourth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The dog-rose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood:t15:o1:1
# text = The dog-rose
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	rose	rose	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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Willow-herb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood:t15:o2:1
# text = Willow-herb
1	Willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The purple loosestrife, which arrives early in the play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood:t15:o3:1
# text = The purple loosestrife, which arrives early in the play
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	loosestrife	loosestrife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | the purple loosestrife |  |  | the play |  | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Loosestrife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:33-willows-ch3-part1-winter-and-the-way-to-the-wood:t15:o4:1
# text = Loosestrife
1	Loosestrife	loosestrife	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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