Test 14 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the…

What would have happened if the stable-helps had NOT been at their dinner?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stable · What happens: happen, help, have, not be · To what, where: dinner

This is test 14 · ★★★ of lesson 48 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» 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	_	9 helps	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stable	det
7	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 helps	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 stable	punct
9	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	advcl
10	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 helps	xcomp
11	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 dinner	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 dinner	cop
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 dinner	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 dinner	nmod:poss
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help a condition, not said to happen	present	the stable		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	participle	the stable not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is	participle		their dinner	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 · ✓ the right answer

Someone would probably have stopped Toad touching the car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 stopped	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stopped	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 stopped	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stopped	aux
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	obj
7	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stopped	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 car	det
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would · perfect	Someone	Toad				probably property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector toad=Eventuality
2	touch	gerund	Someone not said here	the car					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Toad would have waited quietly in the coffee-room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 waited	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 waited	aux
4	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 waited	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
8	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 room	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 coffee	punct
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	would · perfect	Toad			the coffee room		quietly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location

Option 3

Someone would probably have stopped Toad touching the car, and he might never have been caught with it in the yard

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 stopped	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stopped	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 stopped	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stopped	aux
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	obj
7	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stopped	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 car	det
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touching	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 caught	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 caught	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 caught	nsubj:pass
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 caught	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 caught	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 caught	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 caught	aux:pass
17	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stopped	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 caught	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 yard	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 yard	det
22	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	would · perfect	Someone	Toad	probably property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector toad=Eventuality
2	touch	gerund	Someone not said here	the car		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Co-Theme
3	not catch	might · perfect · passive		Toad	with car; in the yard	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

The stable-helps would have caught Toad running off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 helps	det
2	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 helps	advcl
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 stable	punct
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 caught	aux
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 caught	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 caught	aux
7	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obj
9	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 caught	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 running	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would · present · perfect		Toad					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Theme
2	run off	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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