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title: ★★★ «More sense in your little finger than some other animals have i… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ «More sense in your little finger than some other animals have in the whole of their fat bodies.» Whom is Badger quietly teasing? Test 17 · ★★★ of lesson 69 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)»
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# Test 17 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer…

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★★★ «More sense in your little finger than some other animals have in the whole of their fat bodies.» Whom is Badger quietly teasing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** other animals, Badger · **What happens:** have, tease · **To what, where:** More sense

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This is test 17 · ★★★ of lesson 69 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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/69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole/#t17).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ «More sense in your little finger than some other animals have in the whole of their fat bodies.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole:t17:1
# text = ★★★ «More sense in your little finger than some other animals have in the whole of their fat bodies.»
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | some other animals | More sense in your little finger *not said here* |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient |

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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:* Whom is Badger quietly teasing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole:t17:2
# text = Whom is Badger quietly teasing?
1	Whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tease** | present · progressive | Badger |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Stoat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole:t17:o1:1
# text = Stoat
1	Stoat	stoat	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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The gardener at Toad Hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole:t17:o2:1
# text = The gardener at Toad Hall
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Toad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole:t17:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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Weasel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole:t17:o4:1
# text = Weasel
1	Weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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