Test 3 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Ad…

Why does Toad say «I've heard that song before»?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: say, hear · To what, where: song · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 62 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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.

The question

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

Option 1

Because people keep shouting stop at him

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone chasing him keeps shouting «Stop, stop, stop!», like the men on the engine

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Because the song is from the engine

Option 4

Everyone chasing him keeps shouting «Stop, stop, stop!», just as the men on the engine did in the car

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