Test 7 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Woo…

What would have happened if the snow had not fallen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snow · What happens: happen, not fall

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 35 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» 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 fallen	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fallen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fallen	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 fallen	advmod
10	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
11	?	?	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 fall a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the snow						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They'd eat well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	They					well property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They would find the Mole's house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mole	det
5	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Mole	case
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	They	the Mole's house					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They could see their way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	3 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	They	their way				home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus

Option 4

They'd reach the river quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reach	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 reach	aux
3	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reach	obj
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 reach	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	would	They	the river				quickly property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme

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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