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title: Looking back: what was written on the brass plate on Badger's door i… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: what was written on the brass plate on Badger's door in chapter III? Test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Test 12 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (t…

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Looking back: what was written on the brass plate on Badger's door in chapter III?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** look back, write · **To what, where:** brass plate

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This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End)» 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/42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end:t12:1
# text = Looking back: what was written on the brass plate on Badger's door in chapter III?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **write** | past · passive |  |  |  | the brass plate on Badger's door in chapter |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on plate=Destination |

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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 {#o1}

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MR. BADGER OF THE WILD WOOD

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end:t12:o1:1
# text = MR. BADGER OF THE WILD WOOD
1	MR.	MR.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	BADGER	BADGER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	WILD	WILD	PROPN	NNP	_	6	flat	_	_
6	WOOD	WOOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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MR. MOLE

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end:t12:o2:1
# text = MR. MOLE
1	MR.	MR.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	MOLE	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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MR. BADGER

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end:t12:o3:1
# text = MR. BADGER
1	MR.	MR.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	BADGER	BADGER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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MR. BADGER, PRIVATE HOME

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:42-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end:t12:o4:1
# text = MR. BADGER, PRIVATE HOME
1	MR.	MR.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	BADGER	BADGER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	PRIVATE	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	HOME	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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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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