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title: Looking back: in chapter IX, who stopped the Rat from going south wi… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: in chapter IX, who stopped the Rat from going south with the Sea Rat? Test 12 · ★★ 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, with the d
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# Test 12 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer…

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Looking back: in chapter IX, who stopped the Rat from going south with the Sea Rat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** chapter · **What happens:** look back, stop, go · **To what, where:** Rat

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This is test 12 · ★★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t12:1
# text = Looking back: in chapter IX, who stopped the Rat from going south with the Sea Rat?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	_
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	0	root	_	_
6	IX	ix	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	south	south	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stop** | past | chapter | the Rat |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector rat=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | chapter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Sea Rat; south *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with rat=Beneficiary |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The Mole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t12:o1:1
# text = The Mole
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mole	mole	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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Toad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t12:o2:1
# text = Toad
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Badger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t12:o3:1
# text = Badger
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Otter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t12:o4:1
# text = The Otter
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Otter	Otter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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