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# Test 13 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return o…

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Looking back: in chapter XI, why did Badger want the attack during the banquet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** look back, want · **To what, where:** attack

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This is test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 70 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return of Ulysses (dressing for battle, the dark passage and «Good Toad, modest Toad»)» 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/70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night:t13:1
# text = Looking back: in chapter XI, why did Badger want the attack during the banquet?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	XI	XI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	during	during	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | past · do-support | Badger | the attack |  |  | during the banquet |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot attack=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The weasels would have no weapons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night:t13:o1:1
# text = The weasels would have no weapons
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | the weasels | no weapons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The weasels would be sleeping then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night:t13:o2:1
# text = The weasels would be sleeping then
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | would · progressive | the weasels |  |  |  | then |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Because the weasels had their weapons locked away and the attack would be quicker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night:t13:o3:1
# text = Because the weasels had their weapons locked away and the attack would be quicker
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the weasels | weasels's weapons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lock away** | participle | weasels's weapons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | would | the attack |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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So that the weasels would be drunk and unable to fight back at all during the feast

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night:t13:o4:1
# text = So that the weasels would be drunk and unable to fight back at all during the feast
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	_
15	during	during	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the weasels |  |  |  | during the feast | drunk *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the weasels *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight back** | to-infinitive | the weasels *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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