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title: ★★★ «Whose hour, you should rather say.» Why does the Badger correct… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ «Whose hour, you should rather say.» Why does the Badger correct «What hour»? Test 15 · ★★★ of lesson 45 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the…

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★★★ «Whose hour, you should rather say.» Why does the Badger correct «What hour»?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say, do · **To what, where:** Badger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 15 · ★★★ of lesson 45 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/#t15).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ «Whose hour, you should rather say.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad:t15:1
# text = ★★★ «Whose hour, you should rather say.»
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | should | you |  |  |  |  | ★ *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why does the Badger correct «What hour»?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad:t15:2
# text = Why does the Badger correct «What hour»?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the Badger |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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He means the hour when Toad will be ruined

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad:t15:o1:1
# text = He means the hour when Toad will be ruined
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | He |  |  |  | hour |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ruin** | future · passive |  | Toad |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He wants a clock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad:t15:o2:1
# text = He wants a clock
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | He | a clock |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot clock=Theme |

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

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He means an hour belonging to Toad, not an hour on the clock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad:t15:o3:1
# text = He means an hour belonging to Toad, not an hour on the clock
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | He |  |  |  | hour |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | a hour *not said here* |  | Toad |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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He is correcting the Rat's grammar about clocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad:t15:o4:1
# text = He is correcting the Rat's grammar about clocks
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	correcting	correct	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	grammar	grammar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | present · progressive | He | the Rat's grammar |  |  |  | about clocks | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grammar=Patient |

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