Test 5 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return o…

What would have happened if the weasels had kept their guns at the banquet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: weasels, banquet

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 71 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 2: The Return of Ulysses (four Heroes, five minutes and clean sheets)» 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	_	9 kept	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 weasels	det
7	weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kept	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	aux
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 guns	nmod:poss
11	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kept	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 banquet	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 banquet	det
14	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	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		the weasels		the banquet			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme gun=Attribute

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

A bloody war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 war	det
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 war	amod
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Badger would be dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dead	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Badger					dead property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A much harder fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fight	det
2	much	much	ADV	_	3 harder	advmod
3	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 fight	amod
4	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Worse for us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 us	case
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Worse	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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