Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (b…

What would happen if Badger tried to save Toad in midwinter, against animal-etiquette?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger · What happens: happen, try, save · To what, where: animal etiquette, Toad, midwinter

This is test 15 · ★★★ of lesson 38 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» 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	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 tried	mark
5	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 save	mark
8	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 save	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 midwinter	case
11	midwinter	midwinter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 save	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 etiquette	punct
13	against	against	ADP	_	16 etiquette	case
14	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 etiquette	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 animal	punct
16	etiquette	etiquette	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would			animal etiquette	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against etiquette=Location
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	Badger			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	Badger not said here	Toad	midwinter	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=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

Toad would refuse, and the others would laugh at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 refuse	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 refuse	aux
3	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laugh	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laugh	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 others	det
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laugh	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 laugh	aux
9	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refuse	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	would	Toad						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	would	the others					at Toad	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The hedgehogs would be late for school again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hedgehogs	det
2	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 late	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 late	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 late	cop
5	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 school	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 late	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	5 late	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the hedgehogs				again	for school; late property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone is sleepy and snowed in, so it would be hard and odd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 sleepy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleepy	cop
3	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 snowed	cc
5	snowed	snow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sleepy	conj
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 snowed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hard	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hard	expl
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hard	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 hard	cop
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sleepy	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 odd	cc
14	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Everyone	sleepy property	tree rules
2	snow in	participle	Everyone not said here		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	is	would	Everyone not said here	hard property	tree rules
4	be		Everyone not said here		tree rules

Option 4

Nobody would mind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 mind	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mind	aux
3	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mind	would	Nobody						vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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