Test 8 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Woo…

What would have happened if the Mole hadn't cut his shin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, not cut · To what, where: Mole

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door)» 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 cut	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mole	det
7	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 cut	advmod
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shin	nmod:poss
12	shin	shin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	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 cut a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the Mole					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary shin=Product

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 might never have found the door, and the Rat would still be searching in the snow

The tree, 17 words

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	5 found	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 found	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 found	aux
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 searching	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 searching	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rat	det
11	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 searching	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 searching	aux
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 searching	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 searching	aux
15	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 found	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 snow	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 snow	det
18	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 searching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	might · perfect	They	the door					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic
2	search	would · progressive	the Rat			the snow	still		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in snow=Location

Option 2

They might never find the badger

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	4 find	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 find	advmod
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 badger	det
6	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	might	They	the badger					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Topic

Option 3

They'd have given up the search

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	4 given	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 given	aux
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 given	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 search	det
7	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	would · perfect	They	the search					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They might never have found the door

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	5 found	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 found	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 found	aux
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	might · perfect	They	the door					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic

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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