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title: Looking back: in chapter XI, what did the grumbling stoats say about… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: in chapter XI, what did the grumbling stoats say about the weasels? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 71 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

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Looking back: in chapter XI, what did the grumbling stoats say about the weasels?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grumbling stoats · **What happens:** look back, say · **To what, where:** chapter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 71 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» 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/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t11:1
# text = Looking back: in chapter XI, what did the grumbling stoats say about the weasels?
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	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	grumbling	grumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	stoats	stoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the grumbling stoats | chapter |  |  |  | about the weasels | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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The weasels would feast in their warm camp while the stoats froze on the frosty bank

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t11:o1:1
# text = The weasels would feast in their warm camp while the stoats froze on the frosty bank
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	feast	feast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stoats	stoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	frosty	frosty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feast** | would | the weasels |  |  | weasels's warm camp |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **freeze** | past | the stoats |  |  | the frosty bank |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The weasels were fat and warm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t11:o2:1
# text = The weasels were fat and warm
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the weasels |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the weasels *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The weasels would feast while they froze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t11:o3:1
# text = The weasels would feast while they froze
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	feast	feast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feast** | would | the weasels |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **freeze** | past | weasels *= weasel* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The weasels would feast in the warm hall while the stoats froze outside in the cold

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t11:o4:1
# text = The weasels would feast in the warm hall while the stoats froze outside in the cold
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	feast	feast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stoats	stoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feast** | would | the weasels |  |  | the warm hall |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **freeze** | past | the stoats |  |  | the cold |  | outside *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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