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title: Why did four animals seem like a whole army to the weasels? — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did four animals seem like a whole army to the weasels? Test 2 · ★★★ 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 pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 2 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

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Why did four animals seem like a whole army to the weasels?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** four animals · **What happens:** seem

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This is test 2 · ★★★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t2:1
# text = Why did four animals seem like a whole army to the weasels?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past · do-support | four animals |  |  |  |  | like a whole army; to the weasels | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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 {#o1}

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The hall was dark and smoky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t2:o1:1
# text = The hall was dark and smoky
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	smoky	smoky	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 hall |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the hall *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Panic made them see monsters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t2:o2:1
# text = Panic made them see monsters
1	Panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Panic | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* | monsters |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monster=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fear and panic made each of the four seem like a hundred monsters to them

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t2:o3:1
# text = Fear and panic made each of the four seem like a hundred monsters to them
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
9	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Fear and panic |  | monsters *= monster* |  |  | like hundred monsters | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **seem** | present | each |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Panic made them see monsters, and they fled from the hall in terror

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t2:o4:1
# text = Panic made them see monsters, and they fled from the hall in terror
1	Panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Panic | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* | monsters |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monster=Stimulus |
| 3 | **flee** | past | monsters *= monster* |  |  | the hall |  | in terror | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hall=Initial\_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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