Test 3 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer…

What would happen if Toad told someone about the passage before tonight?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: happen, tell · To what, where: someone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 68 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 4: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (the secret passage, the birthday banquet and «learn 'em»)» 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 told	mark
5	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 told	iobj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 passage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 passage	det
10	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 tonight	case
12	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passage	nmod
13	?	?	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	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	Toad		someone			about the passage before tonight	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient about passage=Topic

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

The weasels might hear and the plan would fail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weasels	det
2	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fail	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plan	det
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fail	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fail	aux
9	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hear	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	might	the weasels						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	fail	would	the plan						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Badger would be very angry with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Badger					with him = he; angry property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The weasels might hear, the plan would fail, and Toad would be sent home to bed

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weasels	det
2	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fail	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plan	det
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fail	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fail	aux
9	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hear	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sent	cc
12	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sent	nsubj:pass
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 sent	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 sent	aux:pass
15	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hear	conj
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 sent	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 bed	case
18	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	might	the weasels				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	fail	would	the plan				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	send	would · passive		Toad	bed	home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to bed=Destination

Option 4

Everyone in the wood would know, and the weasels would hide their weapons and not come

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 know	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 wood	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wood	det
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everyone	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hide	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hide	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 weasels	det
10	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hide	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hide	aux
12	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 know	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 weapons	nmod:poss
14	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hide	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 come	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 come	advmod
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 know	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	would	Everyone		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hide	would	the weasels	weasels's weapons	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient
3	not come	infinitive	Everyone not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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