Test 13 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a…

What would happen if the Rat had agreed «yes, it's a poor cold little place»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: happen, agree, be · To what, where: poor cold little place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 3: Dulce Domum (a dusty home, a sardine supper, and voices outside)» 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	_	8 agreed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rat	det
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 agreed	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 agreed	aux
8	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 place	punct
10	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	18 place	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 yes	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 place	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 place	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 place	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 place	amod
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 place	amod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 place	amod
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 agreed	xcomp
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 place	punct
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the Rat		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a not said to happen, in a quote	present	Rat	a poor cold little place	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

The Mole would feel even worse about his home

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	4 feel	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 worse	advmod
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 feel	xcomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 home	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 home	nmod:poss
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worse	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	the Mole					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

The Mole would feel happy and proud of it

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	4 feel	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 proud	cc
7	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 happy	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 proud	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	the Mole					happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

The Mole would get very cross with the Rat

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	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 cross	advmod
6	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 Rat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rat	det
9	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the Mole					cross property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The Mole would start to cry and say he should move far away from the river

The tree, 16 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	4 start	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cry	mark
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 start	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 say	cc
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 start	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 move	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 move	aux
11	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	ccomp
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 away	advmod
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 move	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	start	would	the Mole		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the Mole not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	the Mole not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	move	should	Mole	away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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