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title: What would a field-mouse probably say if the Rat came back next week? — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would a field-mouse probably say if the Rat came back next week? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 56 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 5 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All…

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What would a field-mouse probably say if the Rat came back next week?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** field mouse, Rat · **What happens:** say, come back · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 56 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» 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/56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air:t5:1
# text = What would a field-mouse probably say if the Rat came back next week?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a field mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come back** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the Rat |  |  |  | week |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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We'd love a picnic next week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air:t5:o1:1
# text = We'd love a picnic next week
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	picnic	picnic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | would | We | a picnic |  |  | week |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picnic=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Still too busy, perhaps another day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air:t5:o2:1
# text = Still too busy, perhaps another day
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, of course

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air:t5:o3:1
# text = Yes, of course
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	_
4	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	fixed	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sorry, the machines are coming

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:56-willows-ch9-part1-change-in-the-air:t5:o4:1
# text = Sorry, the machines are coming
1	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · progressive | the machines |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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