Test 8 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank…

What would have happened if the Mole had kept asking about the weasels?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mole · What happens: happen, keep, ask · To what, where: Mole

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 26 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» 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	_	9 kept	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mole	det
7	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	aux
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
10	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 weasels	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 weasels	det
13	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 asking	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the Mole		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	the Mole not said here		about the weasels	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about weasel=Topic

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He would have broken animal-etiquette

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 broken	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 broken	aux
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 etiquette	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 animal	punct
7	etiquette	etiquette	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broken	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	would · perfect	He	animal etiquette					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer etiquette=Patient

Option 2

The Rat would have stopped the boat and walked back to the Wild Wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stopped	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stopped	aux
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boat	det
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walked	cc
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stopped	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 walked	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 Wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wood	det
13	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	14 Wood	flat
14	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would · perfect	the Rat	the boat					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector boat=Eventuality
2	walk back	past	the Rat not said here					to the Wild Wood result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wood=Result

Option 3

The Rat would have been angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 angry	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 angry	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 angry	cop
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	the Rat					angry property	tree rules

Option 4

The Rat would have left him in the boat and gone home alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 left	aux
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	iobj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 boat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boat	det
9	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gone	cc
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 left	conj
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 gone	advmod
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would · perfect	the Rat		him = he	the boat			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in boat=Location
2	go	participle	the Rat not said here					alone, home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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