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title: ★★★ The Rat lists what has happened to Toad: «handcuffed, imprisoned… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ The Rat lists what has happened to Toad: «handcuffed, imprisoned, starved, chased, terrified out of your life, insulted, jeered at, and ... flung into the water». How many things is that? Test 16 · ★★ of lesson 65 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears
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# Test 16 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer…

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★★★ The Rat lists what has happened to Toad: «handcuffed, imprisoned, starved, chased, terrified out of your life, insulted, jeered at, and ... flung into the water». How many things is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** list, happen, handcuff, imprison, starve, chase · **To what, where:** Toad, water, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 16 · ★★ 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/#t16).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ The Rat lists what has happened to Toad: «handcuffed, imprisoned, starved, chased, terrified out of your life, insulted, jeered at, and ... flung into the water».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t16:1
# text = ★★★ The Rat lists what has happened to Toad: «handcuffed, imprisoned, starved, chased, terrified out of your life, insulted, jeered at, and ... flung into the water».
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	lists	list	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	handcuffed	handcuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	starved	starve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	insulted	insult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	jeered	jeer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **list** | present | ★ ★ the Rat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | present · perfect |  |  | Toad |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **handcuff** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **imprison** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **starve** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **chase** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **insult** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **jeer** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **fling** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | the water |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into water=Destination |

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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:* How many things is that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t16:2
# text = How many things is that?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t16:o1:1
# text = 8
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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0

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t16:o2:1
# text = 0
1	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Twelve things, counting the water as well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t16:o3:1
# text = Twelve things, counting the water as well
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | gerund | Twelve things *not said here* | the water |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eleven things in all, counting each separately

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t16:o4:1
# text = Eleven things in all, counting each separately
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | gerund | Eleven things in all *not said here* | each |  |  |  | separately *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |

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