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title: Is it TRUE or FALSE? «Toad really agrees with every word the Rat say… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is it TRUE or FALSE? «Toad really agrees with every word the Rat says.» Test 4 · ★★ 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 dependency tre
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# Test 4 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 1: «Like Summer…

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Is it TRUE or FALSE? «Toad really agrees with every word the Rat says.»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it, Toad, Rat · **What happens:** be, agree, say · **To what, where:** word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Is it TRUE or FALSE?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t4:1
# text = Is it TRUE or FALSE?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	FALSE	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	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** | present | it |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* «Toad really agrees with every word the Rat says.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t4:2
# text = «Toad really agrees with every word the Rat says.»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | present | Toad |  |  |  |  | with every word | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with word=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the Rat | every word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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False, Toad says no to everything but then secretly agrees with the Rat later on

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t4:o1:1
# text = False, Toad says no to everything but then secretly agrees with the Rat later on
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Toad | no | everything |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to everything=Recipient |
| 2 | **agree on** *speech: agree* | present | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  | then | with the Rat; late, secretly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with rat=Co-Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Partly false: inside he still thinks «it was fun», but out loud he agrees

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t4:o2:1
# text = Partly false: inside he still thinks «it was fun», but out loud he agrees
1	Partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | he |  |  |  | still |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | it |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | he |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Mostly true, since Toad always agrees out loud and inside he also agrees fully

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t4:o3:1
# text = Mostly true, since Toad always agrees out loud and inside he also agrees fully
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Toad |  |  |  |  | always, loud *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Toad |  |  |  |  | fully, inside *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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False, Toad argues with the Rat about every single point he raises

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them:t4:o4:1
# text = False, Toad argues with the Rat about every single point he raises
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	argues	argue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	raises	raise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Toad | every single point |  |  |  | with the Rat | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rat=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **raise** | present | Toad | every single point *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme |

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