Test 7 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road…

What would have happened if the Rat had stayed firm and said no?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: happen, stay, say · To what, where: firm, no · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 30 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» 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 stayed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rat	det
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 stayed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stayed	aux
9	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
10	firm	firm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stayed	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 said	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the Rat	firm	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		no	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=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 · ✓ the right answer

The Mole would have stayed loyally with him

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	loyally	loyally	ADV	_	5 stayed	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would · perfect	the Mole					with him = he; loyally property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location

Option 2

The Mole would have gone on the trip alone

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	on	on	ADP	_	8 trip	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trip	det
8	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 trip	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would · perfect	the Mole			the trip			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trip=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Mole would have gone sadly with Toad anyway, feeling guilty about it all

The tree, 14 words

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	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Toad	case
8	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feeling	punct
11	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gone	conj
12	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feeling	xcomp
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 guilty	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 feeling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would · perfect	the Mole					with Toad; anyway, sadly property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with toad=Beneficiary
2	feel	gerund	the Mole not said here					guilty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

The Mole would have stayed loyally with him, and Toad would have sulked in the yard for a week

The tree, 19 words

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	loyally	loyally	ADV	_	5 stayed	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stayed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sulked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sulked	cc
11	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sulked	nsubj:pass
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sulked	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 sulked	aux
14	sulked	sulk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stayed	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 yard	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 yard	det
17	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sulked	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 week	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 week	det
20	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sulked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would · perfect	the Mole					with him = he; loyally property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
2	sulk	would · perfect · passive		Toad			week	in the yard	tree rules

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