Test 6 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer…

What would happen to the sentries if they believed the attack was coming from three sides?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentries, attack · What happens: happen, believe, come · To what, where: three sides · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 69 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XI, part 5: «Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears» (Mole the washerwoman and the badgers that never were)» 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	to	to	ADP	_	6 sentries	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sentries	det
6	sentries	sentry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 believed	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 believed	nsubj
9	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 attack	det
11	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coming	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 coming	aux
13	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 believed	ccomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 sides	case
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sides	nummod
16	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 coming	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to the sentries	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	believe a condition, not said to happen	past	sentries = sentry			vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come	past · progressive	the attack	three sides		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from side=Initial_Location

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'd sleep

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 sleep	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	would	They						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They'd split up and panic

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 split	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 split	aux
3	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 split	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 panic	cc
6	panic	panic	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 split	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split up	would	They						vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	panic	present	They not said here						vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They'd be spread out and jumpy

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 spread	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 spread	aux:pass
4	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 spread	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 jumpy	cc
7	jumpy	jumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spread	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread out	would · passive		They					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

They'd be spread thin and nervous

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 spread	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 spread	aux:pass
4	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spread	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nervous	cc
7	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	would · passive		They				thin property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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