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title: Why is «OTHER COMPOSITIONS BY TOAD will be sung by the COMPOSER» fun… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is «OTHER COMPOSITIONS BY TOAD will be sung by the COMPOSER» funny? Test 4 · ★★★ 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, with the dependency tree
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# Test 4 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

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Why is «OTHER COMPOSITIONS BY TOAD will be sung by the COMPOSER» funny?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** COMPOSER · **What happens:** be, sing · **To what, where:** OTHER COMPOSITIONS

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This is test 4 · ★★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t4:1
# text = Why is «OTHER COMPOSITIONS BY TOAD will be sung by the COMPOSER» funny?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	OTHER	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	COMPOSITIONS	composition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	BY	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	TOAD	TOAD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	COMPOSER	composer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | future · passive | the COMPOSER | OTHER COMPOSITIONS by TOAD |  |  |  | funny *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=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 singer is Badger again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t4:o1:1
# text = The singer is Badger again
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the singer | Badger |  |  | again |  | tree rules |

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

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The composer is Toad too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t4:o2:1
# text = The composer is Toad too
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	composer	composer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the composer | Toad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Because the weasels will sing it too, all together, loudly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t4:o3:1
# text = Because the weasels will sing it too, all together, loudly
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | future | the weasels | it |  |  |  | loudly, together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Because Badger wrote a song about Toad that is very rude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t4:o4:1
# text = Because Badger wrote a song about Toad that is very rude
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Badger | a song |  |  |  | about Toad | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent song=Recipient about toad=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | a song |  |  |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |

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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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