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title: ★★★ The reeds' song has three verses. How many of them end with the… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII,… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ The reeds' song has three verses. How many of them end with the word «forget»? Test 16 · ★ of lesson 51 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Test 16 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at…

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★★★ The reeds' song has three verses. How many of them end with the word «forget»?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, reeds, many · **What happens:** have, sing, end, forget · **To what, where:** three verses, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 51 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 3: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the gift of forgetfulness)» 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/51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness/#t16).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ The reeds' song has three verses.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness:t16:1
# text = ★★★ The reeds' song has three verses.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | ★ ★ the reeds's song | three verses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Patient |
| 2 | **sing** |  | the reeds |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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:* How many of them end with the word «forget»?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness:t16:2
# text = How many of them end with the word «forget»?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	forget	forget	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | many of reeds | the word |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality word=Eventuality |
| 2 | **forget** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Just two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness:t16:o1:1
# text = Just two
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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All three, though the last verse ends differently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness:t16:o2:1
# text = All three, though the last verse ends differently
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | all three |  |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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

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All three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness:t16:o3:1
# text = All three
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:51-willows-ch7-part3-the-gift-of-forgetfulness:t16:o4:1
# text = Only one
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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