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title: Why did Badger put Toad last in the line? — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did Badger put Toad last in the line? Test 2 · ★★★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 2 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 1: The Return o…

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Why did Badger put Toad last in the line?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** put · **To what, where:** Toad, line

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This is test 2 · ★★★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night:t2:1
# text = Why did Badger put Toad last in the line?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	last	last	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · do-support | Badger | Toad |  | the line |  | last *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent toad=Theme in line=Destination |

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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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So he could watch Toad closely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night:t2:o1:1
# text = So he could watch Toad closely
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | could | he | Toad |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Because Toad was the youngest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night:t2:o2:1
# text = Because Toad was the youngest
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Toad |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To punish him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night:t2:o3:1
# text = To punish him
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	punish	punish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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

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To keep him out of trouble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:70-willows-ch12-part1-the-secret-passage-at-night:t2:o4:1
# text = To keep him out of trouble
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  | trouble |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out trouble=Location |

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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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