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title: Compute the aggregate term proposed by the Clerk prior to its roundi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Compute the aggregate term proposed by the Clerk prior to its rounding. Exam question 2 of lesson 48 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Exam question 2 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the…

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Compute the aggregate term proposed by the Clerk prior to its rounding.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** compute, propose · **To what, where:** aggregate term

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 48 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:e2:1
# text = Compute the aggregate term proposed by the Clerk prior to its rounding.
1	Compute	compute	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Clerk	Clerk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	rounding	rounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compute** | imperative | you *not said here* | the aggregate term |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Result |
| 2 | **propose** | participle |  | the aggregate term *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Clerk; prior Clerk's rounding | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Twenty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:e2:o1:1
# text = Twenty years
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nineteen years, plus a fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:e2:o2:1
# text = Nineteen years, plus a fine
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nine years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:e2:o3:1
# text = Nine years
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Nineteen years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:e2:o4:1
# text = Nineteen years
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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