--- title: ★★★ Careful with the Clerk's sum: suppose Toad went into the dungeon… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Careful with the Clerk's sum: suppose Toad went into the dungeon aged 30 and served the whole sentence the Chairman gave. How old would he be when let out? Test 15 · ★★★ 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 du --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/t15/) [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 VI, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/) / t15 # Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the… ★★★ Careful with the Clerk's sum: suppose Toad went into the dungeon aged 30 and served the whole sentence the Chairman gave. How old would he be when let out? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, Toad, Chairman, Clerk · **What happens:** ★, suppose, go, serve, give, sum · **To what, where:** dungeon, whole sentence · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 15 · ★★★ 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. 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/#t15). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Careful with the Clerk's sum: suppose Toad went into the dungeon aged 30 and served the whole sentence the Chairman gave. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:t15:1 # text = ★★★ Careful with the Clerk's sum: suppose Toad went into the dungeon aged 30 and served the whole sentence the Chairman gave. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Clerk Clerk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 suppose suppose VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dungeon dungeon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 aged aged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ _ 18 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Chairman Chairman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **★** | present | ★ | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **suppose** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | Toad | | | the dungeon | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into dungeon=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **serve** | past | Toad *not said here* | the whole sentence | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Attribute | | 5 | **give** | past | the Chairman | the whole sentence *not said here* | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme | | 6 | **sum** | | the Clerk | | | | | | nom sum «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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:* How old would he be when let out? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:t15:2 # text = How old would he be when let out? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | would | Chairman | | | | | let *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:t15:o1:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 20 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:t15:o2:1 # text = 20 1 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 50 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:t15:o3:1 # text = 50 1 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 1 ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:t15:o4:1 # text = 1 1 1 1 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 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. Elamur Cosmic License. - ← previous: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, test 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/t14/) - next →: [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p…, test 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/t16/) - ↑ back to [The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/)