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title: ★★★ The weasels saw animals «grey, black, brown and yellow». Badger… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ The weasels saw animals «grey, black, brown and yellow». Badger is grey and Mole black. Which two colours are left for the Rat and Toad? Test 16 · ★★★ 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 cour
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# Test 16 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

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★★★ The weasels saw animals «grey, black, brown and yellow». Badger is grey and Mole black. Which two colours are left for the Rat and Toad?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, Badger · **What happens:** see, be, leave · **To what, where:** animals, two colours

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This is test 16 · ★★★ 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/#t16).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ The weasels saw animals «grey, black, brown and yellow».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t16:1
# text = ★★★ The weasels saw animals «grey, black, brown and yellow».
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | ★ | animals |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus |

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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:* Badger is grey and Mole black.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t16:2
# text = Badger is grey and Mole black.
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Badger |  |  |  |  | grey *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Badger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* Which two colours are left for the Rat and Toad?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t16:3
# text = Which two colours are left for the Rat and Toad?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present · passive |  | two colours |  |  |  | for the Rat and Toad | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Brown and white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t16:o1:1
# text = Brown and white
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Brown and yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t16:o2:1
# text = Brown and yellow
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yellow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t16:o3:1
# text = Yellow
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yellow and red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t16:o4:1
# text = Yellow and red
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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