Test 7 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank…

What would have happened if the Rat hadn't had a boat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: happen, not have · To what, where: boat

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 25 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rat	det
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 had	advmod
10	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boat	det
12	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the Rat	a boat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

The Mole would have stayed on his own bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stayed	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stayed	aux
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 bank	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bank	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bank	amod
9	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would · perfect	the Mole			Mole's own bank			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location

Option 2

He would have swum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swum	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swum	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 swum	aux
4	swum	swim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	would · perfect	He						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The Mole would have gone home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would · perfect	the Mole					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He'd have drowned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drowned	nsubj:pass
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 drowned	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 drowned	aux
4	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	would · perfect · passive		He					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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