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title: Ciara, «what's the craic (fun)?»: «Badger called it 'grub', so he's… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 4 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

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Ciara, «what's the craic (fun)?»: «Badger called it 'grub', so he's common.» What should we say today?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ciara, Badger, we · **What happens:** be, call, say · **To what, where:** fun, craic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ciara, «what's the craic (fun)?»: «Badger called it 'grub', so he's common.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t4:1
# text = Ciara, «what's the craic (fun)?»: «Badger called it 'grub', so he's common.»
1	Ciara	Ciara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	craic	craic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Ciara | fun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Ciara | craic |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Badger |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |

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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:* What should we say today?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t4:2
# text = What should we say today?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | we |  |  |  | today |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Say «food»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t4:o1:1
# text = Say «food»
1	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent food=Topic |

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

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Every dialect is fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t4:o2:1
# text = Every dialect is fine
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | every dialect |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Grub is common

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t4:o3:1
# text = Grub is common
1	Grub	grub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Grub |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only posh people say food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall:t4:o4:1
# text = Only posh people say food
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | posh people | food |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent food=Topic |

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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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