Test 6 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Ad…

What would have happened if Toad had walked away without bargaining?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: happen, walk away, bargain

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 62 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter X, part 2: The Further Adventures of Toad (into the canal, the stolen horse and «a shilling a leg»)» 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 walked	mark
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 walked	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 walked	aux
8	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 walked	advmod
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 bargaining	mark
11	bargaining	bargain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 walked	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk away a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Toad	away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bargain	gerund	Toad not said here		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

He would have stayed hungry and penniless, with a stolen horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing 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	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 penniless	cc
7	penniless	penniless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hungry	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 horse	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 horse	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 horse	det
11	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 horse	amod
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would · perfect	He					hungry property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	steal	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He would have stayed hungry and penniless, still carrying a stolen horse everywhere he went

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing 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	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 penniless	cc
7	penniless	penniless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hungry	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 carrying	punct
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 carrying	advmod
10	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stayed	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 horse	det
12	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 horse	amod
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carrying	obj
14	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 went	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would · perfect	He			hungry property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	carry	gerund	He not said here	a stolen horse	still		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	steal	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	horse			everywhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He would have stayed hungry with the horse.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing 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	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would · perfect	He					with the horse; hungry property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with horse=Location

Option 4

He would have been caught by the barge-woman.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 caught	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 caught	aux:pass
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
8	barge	barge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 woman	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 barge	punct
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obl:agent
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would · perfect · passive	the barge woman	He					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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