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title: Looking back: which animal did Toad send off with the invitations, a… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: which animal did Toad send off with the invitations, and what had that animal done the night before? Test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 72 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» of the books course of Mov
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# Test 13 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

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Looking back: which animal did Toad send off with the invitations, and what had that animal done the night before?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Toad, animal · **What happens:** look back, send off, have, do · **To what, where:** animal

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This is test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 72 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t13:1
# text = Looking back: which animal did Toad send off with the invitations, and what had that animal done the night before?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	invitations	invitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  | which animal |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **send off** | past · do-support | Toad |  |  |  |  | with the invitations | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | participle | animal |  |  |  | night | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A mole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t13:o1:1
# text = A mole
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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A weasel prisoner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t13:o2:1
# text = A weasel prisoner
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A weasel guard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t13:o3:1
# text = A weasel guard
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A stoat escapee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t13:o4:1
# text = A stoat escapee
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stoat	stoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	escapee	escapee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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