Test 4 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing…

What would have happened if they had kept listening to the Mouse's history?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: happen, keep, listen · To what, where: they

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 5 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» 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	_	8 kept	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kept	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kept	aux
8	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
9	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 history	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Mouse	det
12	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 history	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Mouse	case
14	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 listening	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		they		tree rules
3	listen	gerund	they not said here		to the Mouse's history	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to history=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 · ✓ the right answer

They would have stayed just as wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 stayed	aux
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 wet	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 wet	advmod
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would · perfect	They					wet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They would have all eaten the Mouse's tail and then run off to dry

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eaten	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 eaten	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 eaten	advmod
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mouse	det
7	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tail	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Mouse	case
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaten	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 run	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 run	advmod
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 eaten	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 run	compound:prt
14	to	to	PART	_	15 dry	mark
15	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 run	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would · perfect	They	the Mouse's tail		all property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	run off	infinitive	They not said here		then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dry	to-infinitive	They not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

They would have dried off and gone home happily to their beds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dried	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dried	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 dried	aux
4	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 dried	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gone	cc
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 dried	conj
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
9	happily	happily	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 beds	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 beds	nmod:poss
12	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry off	would · perfect	They						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	go	participle	They not said here			their beds		happily, home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

Option 4

They would have dried in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dried	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dried	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 dried	aux
4	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	would · perfect	They			the sun			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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