--- title: ★★★ The writer says table manners «do matter very much». Whom is he… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ The writer says table manners «do matter very much». Whom is he gently correcting? Test 19 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/t19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/) / t19 # Test 19 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (t… ★★★ The writer says table manners «do matter very much». Whom is he gently correcting? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** say, matter, correct · **To what, where:** table manners · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 19 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» 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/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/#t19). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ The writer says table manners «do matter very much». ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger:t19:1 # text = ★★★ The writer says table manners «do matter very much». 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 writer writer NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 6 obj _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 matter matter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 much much ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★ ★ the writer | table manners | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **matter** *in a quote* | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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. *Sentence 2:* Whom is he gently correcting? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger:t19:2 # text = Whom is he gently correcting? 1 Whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 obj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 gently gently ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 correcting correct VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | present · progressive | ★ | | | | | gently *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent whom=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The Rat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger:t19:o1:1 # text = The Rat 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Mole ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger:t19:o2:1 # text = Mole 1 Mole Mole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Rat ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger:t19:o3:1 # text = Rat 1 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The Badger ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger:t19:o4:1 # text = The Badger 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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