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title: How does the Rat's thinking go? — The Wind in the Willows, chapter III,… · tree and pragmatics
description: How does the Rat's thinking go? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Woo…

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How does the Rat's thinking go?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** thinking, Rat · **What happens:** go, think

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door)» 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/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper:t6:1
# text = How does the Rat's thinking go?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	thinking	thinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **go** | present · do-support | the Rat's thinking |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** |  | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | nom thinking «cognition 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Metal cut → scraper → mat → door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper:t6:o1:1
# text = Metal cut → scraper → mat → door
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	→	→	SYM	SYM	_	4	punct	_	_
4	scraper	scraper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	→	→	SYM	SYM	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	→	→	SYM	SYM	_	8	punct	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cut → door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper:t6:o2:1
# text = Cut → door
1	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	→	→	PROPN	ADD	_	1	obj	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | door | → |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset →=Beneficiary door=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Metal → door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper:t6:o3:1
# text = Metal → door
1	Metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	→	→	PROPN	ADD	_	1	appos	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Snow → mat → scraper → door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper:t6:o4:1
# text = Snow → mat → scraper → door
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	→	→	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	→	→	SYM	SYM	_	5	punct	_	_
5	scraper	scraper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	→	→	SYM	SYM	_	7	punct	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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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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