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title: Looking back: in chapter IX, who nearly made the Rat leave the river… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking back: in chapter IX, who nearly made the Rat leave the river and go South? Test 14 · ★★★ of lesson 73 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with t
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# Test 14 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return o…

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Looking back: in chapter IX, who nearly made the Rat leave the river and go South?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** chapter, Rat · **What happens:** look back, make, leave, go · **To what, where:** river

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This is test 14 · ★★★ of lesson 73 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 4: The Return of Ulysses (Toad's last little song, an altered Toad, and the end of the book)» 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/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad:t14:1
# text = Looking back: in chapter IX, who nearly made the Rat leave the river and go South?
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	IX	ix	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	South	south	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | past | chapter |  |  |  |  | nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive | the Rat | the river |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The Toad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad:t14:o1:1
# text = The Toad
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Otter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad:t14:o2:1
# text = The Otter
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Otter	Otter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The Sea Rat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad:t14:o3:1
# text = The Sea Rat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	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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The Sea Otter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad:t14:o4:1
# text = The Sea Otter
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Otter	Otter	PROPN	NNP	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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