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# Test 10 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Ad…

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Looking back: in chapter VIII, what food first began to cheer Toad up in prison?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** chapter · **What happens:** look back, food, begin, cheer up · **To what, where:** Toad, prison

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 62 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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/62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg:t10:1
# text = Looking back: in chapter VIII, what food first began to cheer Toad up in prison?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
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	VIII	VIII	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	cheer	cheer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in chapter and food | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme |
| 2 | **food** |  | chapter and food |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cheer up** | to-infinitive |  | Toad |  | prison |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent toad=Patient |

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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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Toast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg:t10:o1:1
# text = Toast
1	Toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A large feast of roast chicken, plum pudding and wine sent in by his friends

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg:t10:o2:1
# text = A large feast of roast chicken, plum pudding and wine sent in by his friends
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	plum	plum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plum** | infinitive | a large feast of roast chicken | pudding and wine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **send in** | participle |  | pudding and wine *not said here* |  |  |  | by feast's friends | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hot buttered toast and cocoa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg:t10:o3:1
# text = Hot buttered toast and cocoa
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	buttered	butter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **butter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Bubble-and-squeak, then hot buttered toast and tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:62-willows-ch10-part2-a-shilling-a-leg:t10:o4:1
# text = Bubble-and-squeak, then hot buttered toast and tea
1	Bubble	bubble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	buttered	butter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **butter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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