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# Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer…

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What does Toad's dream about the passage that «twisted and turned round and shook itself» show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dream, Toad · **What happens:** twist, turn round, shake, show, dream · **To what, where:** passage, dream · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 15 · ★★★ of lesson 68 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage:t15:1
# text = What does Toad's dream about the passage that «twisted and turned round and shook itself» show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	twisted	twist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	round	round	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
19	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twist** *in a quote* | past |  | the passage |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **turn round** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shake** *in a quote* | past |  | dream |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 4 | **show** | present · do-support | Toad's dream |  |  |  |  | about the passage | tree rules |
| 5 | **dream** |  | Toad |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#o1}

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He is angry with the weasels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage:t15:o1:1
# text = He is angry with the weasels
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | with the weasels; angry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He is hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage:t15:o2:1
# text = He is hungry
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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He is excited and nervous about tonight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage:t15:o3:1
# text = He is excited and nervous about tonight
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | excited *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | He *not said here* |  |  |  | tonight |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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He is afraid of the dark and the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage:t15:o4:1
# text = He is afraid of the dark and the water
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | of the dark and the water; afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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