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title: So Toad did keep one promise. Which? — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: So Toad did keep one promise. Which? Test 8 · ★★★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 8 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the…

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So Toad did keep one promise. Which?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Toad · **What happens:** keep · **To what, where:** one promise

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This is test 8 · ★★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* So Toad did keep one promise.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:t8:1
# text = So Toad did keep one promise.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · do-support | Toad | one promise |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |

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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:* Which?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:t8:2
# text = Which?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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His promise to jump into the first car he saw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:t8:o1:1
# text = His promise to jump into the first car he saw
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | to-infinitive | His promise |  |  | the first car |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into car=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | promise | the first car *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus |
| 3 | **promise** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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His promise to never buy another motor-car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:t8:o2:1
# text = His promise to never buy another motor-car
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
7	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **buy** | to-infinitive |  | another motor car |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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His promise to give up motoring and the Rat's company for good and always

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:t8:o3:1
# text = His promise to give up motoring and the Rat's company for good and always
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	motoring	motoring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | to-infinitive |  | motoring |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motoring=Source |
| 2 | **promise** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His promise to jump into the first car he saw and drive it all the way back home

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon:t8:o4:1
# text = His promise to jump into the first car he saw and drive it all the way back home
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | to-infinitive | His promise |  |  | the first car |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into car=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | promise | the first car *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus |
| 3 | **drive** | infinitive | His promise *not said here* | car |  |  |  | all way *obl:unmarked*; home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
| 4 | **promise** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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