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What does «squandering» mean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Badger, father · **What happens:** look back, tell, squander, leave, mean · **To what, where:** Toad, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 65 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (home at the Rat's, a telling-off, and bad news)» 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/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Looking back: in chapter VI, Badger told Toad he was «squandering the money your father left you». ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t10:1 # text = Looking back: in chapter VI, Badger told Toad he was «squandering the money your father left you». 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 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 VI VI NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 5 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 iobj _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 squandering squander VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look back** | gerund | Badger *not said here* | | | | | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Badger | | Toad | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **squander** *in a quote* | past · progressive | Badger | the money | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | | 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | your father | the money *not said here* | Toad | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* What does «squandering» mean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t10:2 # text = What does «squandering» mean? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 squandering squander VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squander** *in a quote* | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset | | 2 | **mean** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Lending ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t10:o1:1 # text = Lending 1 Lending lending NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Hiding ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t10:o2:1 # text = Hiding 1 Hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | gerund | | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Wasting ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t10:o3:1 # text = Wasting 1 Wasting wasting NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Saving ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t10:o4:1 # text = Saving 1 Saving save VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | gerund | | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | **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. 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