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title: ★★★ «Matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ «Matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.» Which of the three does Mole's sentry trick show best? Test 18 · ★★★ 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 Mo
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# Test 18 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

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★★★ «Matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.» Which of the three does Mole's sentry trick show best?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** three, Mole · **What happens:** handle, show, trick · **To what, where:** sticks

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This is test 18 · ★★★ 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/#t18).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ «Matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t18:1
# text = ★★★ «Matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.»
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Matchless	matchless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	consummate	consummate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	strategy	strategy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	handling	handling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **handle** *in a quote* |  |  | sticks |  |  |  |  | nom handling «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:* Which of the three does Mole's sentry trick show best?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t18:2
# text = Which of the three does Mole's sentry trick show best?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	sentry	sentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | the three |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
| 2 | **trick** |  | Mole |  |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Matchless valour and skill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t18:o1:1
# text = Matchless valour and skill
1	Matchless	matchless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Proper handling of sticks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t18:o2:1
# text = Proper handling of sticks
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	handling	handling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **handle** |  |  | sticks |  |  |  |  | nom handling «act transitive»: of=patient |

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

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Consummate strategy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t18:o3:1
# text = Consummate strategy
1	Consummate	consummate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	strategy	strategy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consummate** | imperative | you *not said here* | strategy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Matchless valour, shown by fighting alone in the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t18:o4:1
# text = Matchless valour, shown by fighting alone in the dark
1	Matchless	matchless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | participle |  | Matchless valour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  | the dark |  | alone *property* | 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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