Test 7 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adve…

What would happen if Toad lost his temper with the joking guards?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: happen, lose, joke, temper · To what, where: temper

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 53 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» 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	_	6 lost	mark
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lost	nsubj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 temper	nmod:poss
8	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 guards	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guards	det
11	joking	joke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 guards	amod
12	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lost	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose a condition, not said to happen	past	Toad	Toad's temper	with the joking guards	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
3	joke speech: other	gerund				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	temper		Toad			nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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

They might recognise his voice, hear his real name, and then the whole escape would fail, and he would be caught

The tree, 21 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	3 recognise	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 recognise	aux
3	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 voice	nmod:poss
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recognise	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 recognise	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 name	nmod:poss
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 name	amod
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fail	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fail	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 fail	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 escape	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 escape	amod
16	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fail	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fail	aux
18	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 recognise	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caught	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 caught	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 caught	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 caught	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 caught	aux:pass
24	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 recognise	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	recognise	might	They	his voice		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	hear	infinitive	They not said here	his real name		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
3	fail	would	the whole escape		then	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	catch	would · passive		escape		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	name		his = he			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

They would let him out at once

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	3 let	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 let	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	would	They	him = he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at once=Asset

Option 3

They would lock him up for a longer time

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	3 lock	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lock	aux
3	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lock	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 lock	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lock	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock up	would	They	him = he			time		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They might see he wasn't the washerwoman and catch him

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	3 see	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 washerwoman	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 washerwoman	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 washerwoman	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 washerwoman	det
8	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 catch	cc
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	might	They		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is a	past	he	the washerwoman	tree rules
3	catch	infinitive	They not said here	him = he	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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