Test 14 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the…

What would happen if the Badger had come one hour later?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger · What happens: happen, come

This is test 14 · ★★★ of lesson 45 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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 come	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Badger	det
6	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hour	nummod
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 later	obl:unmarked
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 come	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

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

The car would have been sold at the auction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sold	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sold	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sold	aux:pass
6	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 auction	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 auction	det
9	auction	auction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	would · perfect · passive		the car		the auction			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at auction=Asset

Option 2

Toad might already have roared off in the new car and been caught by the police miles away

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 roared	nsubj:pass
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 roared	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	5 roared	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 roared	aux
5	roared	roar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 roared	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 car	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 car	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 car	amod
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roared	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 caught	cc
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 caught	aux:pass
13	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 roared	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 miles	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 police	det
16	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 miles	compound
17	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 caught	obl
18	away	away	ADV	_	13 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar off	might · perfect · passive		Toad		the new car			tree rules
2	catch	participle · passive	police miles					away property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Toad would have been furious and sent for the police

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 furious	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 furious	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 furious	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 furious	cop
5	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sent	cc
7	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 furious	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 police	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 police	det
10	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	Toad					furious property	tree rules
2	send	participle	Toad not said here					for the police	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Toad might already have roared off in the new car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 roared	nsubj:pass
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 roared	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	5 roared	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 roared	aux
5	roared	roar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 roared	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 car	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 car	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 car	amod
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar off	might · perfect · passive		Toad		the new car			tree rules

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