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title: ★★★ The washing goes out on Monday morning and comes back on Friday… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII,… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ The washing goes out on Monday morning and comes back on Friday evening. Not counting Monday and Friday, for how many whole days is it away? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 53 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» of the books course of Mova's primary
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# Test 14 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adve…

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★★★ The washing goes out on Monday morning and comes back on Friday evening. Not counting Monday and Friday, for how many whole days is it away?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, counting · **What happens:** go out, come back, not count, be away · **To what, where:** washing

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 53 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» 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/53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman/#t14).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ The washing goes out on Monday morning and comes back on Friday evening.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman:t14:1
# text = ★★★ The washing goes out on Monday morning and comes back on Friday evening.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | present | ★ ★ the washing |  |  |  | morning |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come back** | present | ★ ★ the washing *not said here* |  |  |  | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:* Not counting Monday and Friday, for how many whole days is it away?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman:t14:2
# text = Not counting Monday and Friday, for how many whole days is it away?
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
3	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
12	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	expl	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **count** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day; monday |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be away** | present | counting | washing |  |  |  | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman:t14:o1:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	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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Four whole days and nights, counting Thursday night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman:t14:o2:1
# text = Four whole days and nights, counting Thursday night
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
8	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | gerund | Four whole days and nights *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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

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Three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman:t14:o3:1
# text = Three
1	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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Five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:53-willows-ch8-part2-the-washerwoman:t14:o4:1
# text = Five
1	Five	five	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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