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title: ★★★ If each of the «six boatloads» held 8 Rats, how many imaginary R… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ If each of the «six boatloads» held 8 Rats, how many imaginary Rats were coming? Test 18 · ★★★ 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, wi
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# Test 18 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer…

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★★★ If each of the «six boatloads» held 8 Rats, how many imaginary Rats were coming?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ ★, many imaginary Rats · **What happens:** hold, come · **To what, where:** 8 Rats

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This is test 18 · ★★★ 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/#t18).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole:t18:1
# text = ★★★ If each of the «six boatloads» held 8 Rats, how many imaginary Rats were coming?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	boatloads	boatload	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	Rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | ★ ★ ★  each | 8 Rats |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past · progressive | many imaginary Rats |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole:t18: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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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole:t18:o2:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	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 {#o3}

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42

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole:t18:o3:1
# text = 42
1	42	42	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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48

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:69-willows-ch11-part5-clever-mole:t18:o4:1
# text = 48
1	48	48	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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