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title: «Howay, the Rat just grabbed whatever was in the cupboard.» (howay =… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Howay, the Rat just grabbed whatever was in the cupboard.» (howay = come on) Put it right. Test 3 · ★ of lesson 59 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 3 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All…

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«Howay, the Rat just grabbed whatever was in the cupboard.» (howay = come on) Put it right.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Howay, whatever · **What happens:** grab, be, come on, put · **To what, where:** cupboard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 59 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 4: Wayfarers All (the voyage and lunch by the road)» 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/59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Howay, the Rat just grabbed whatever was in the cupboard.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road:t3:1
# text = «Howay, the Rat just grabbed whatever was in the cupboard.»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Howay	Howay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** *in a quote* | past | Howay |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | whatever |  |  | the cupboard |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* (howay = come on) Put it right.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road:t3:2
# text = (howay = come on) Put it right.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	howay	howay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	4	punct	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
7	Put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	right	right	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come on** | infinitive | howay |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | howay *not said here* | cupboard |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

## The options {#options}

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

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He chose food to suit the stranger's southern tastes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road:t3:o1:1
# text = He chose food to suit the stranger's southern tastes
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tastes	taste	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | He | food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suit** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | the stranger's southern tastes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **taste** |  | the stranger |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He grabbed the nearest things and hoped they'd do

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road:t3:o2:1
# text = He grabbed the nearest things and hoped they'd do
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past | He | the nearest things |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **hope** | past | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | would | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He made a sandwich from whatever was left over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road:t3:o3:1
# text = He made a sandwich from whatever was left over
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	obl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | He | a sandwich |  | whatever |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent sandwich=Product from whatever=Material |
| 2 | **leave over** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He sent for food from the village shop and chose foods familiar to the Mole back at Mole End

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:59-willows-ch9-part4-lunch-by-the-road:t3:o4:1
# text = He sent for food from the village shop and chose foods familiar to the Mole back at Mole End
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	End	End	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | He |  |  | the village shop |  | for food | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from shop=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **choose** | past | He *not said here* | foods |  |  | at Mole End | to the Mole | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent food=Theme at end=Asset |

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