Test 13 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (t…

What would happen to the Badger if a flood came?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flood · What happens: happen, come

This is test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground)» 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	to	to	ADP	_	6 Badger	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Badger	det
6	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 flood	det
9	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the Badger	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come a condition, not said to happen	past	a flood						vn escape-51.1-1 «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

He would sleep through it all soundly

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	3 sleep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleep	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 it	det
7	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	3 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	would	He			it		soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He would have to leave his home and move into hired lodgings for months and months.

The tree, 16 words

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	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 home	nmod:poss
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 move	cc
9	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 lodgings	case
11	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 lodgings	amod
12	lodgings	lodging	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 move	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 months	case
14	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lodgings	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 months	cc
16	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lodgings	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	would	He			tree rules
2	leave	to-infinitive	He not said here	his home		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme
3	move	present	He not said here		hired lodgings for months and months	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lodging=Trajectory
4	hire	participle				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He would be fine, just a little wet

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 fine	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wet	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 wet	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 little	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wet	advmod
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He					fine property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not much — he could stop up a hole or dig a new room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	6 stop	advmod
3	—	-	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stop	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 stop	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hole	det
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 dig	cc
11	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stop	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 room	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 room	amod
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dig	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop up	could	he	a hole					vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hole=Destination
2	dig	infinitive	he not said here	a new room					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent room=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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