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# Test 12 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Ad…

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Looking back: in chapter I, the Rat said there is nothing «half so much worth doing as» what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Rat, doing · **What happens:** look back, say, be, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 61 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 1: The Further Adventures of Toad (free, the canal and the barge-woman's washing)» 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/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman:t12:1
# text = Looking back: in chapter I, the Rat said there is nothing «half so much worth doing as» what?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	appos	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
19	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | doing |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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«Simply messing about in boats»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman:t12:o1:1
# text = «Simply messing about in boats»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	messing	mess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mess** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about boats; simply *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Walking along the riverbank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman:t12:o2:1
# text = Walking along the riverbank
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	along	along	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  | the riverbank |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along riverbank=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Simply sailing down the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman:t12:o3:1
# text = Simply sailing down the river
1	Simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | gerund |  |  |  | the river |  | simply *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent down river=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Simply messing about in boats on the river all summer long with friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman:t12:o4:1
# text = Simply messing about in boats on the river all summer long with friends
1	Simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	messing	mess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mess** | gerund |  |  |  |  | summer | about boats on the river; with friends; long, simply *property* | tree rules |

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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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