Test 6 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

What would have happened if Toad's invitations had gone out?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: invitations, Toad · What happens: happen, go out, invite

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 72 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return of Ulysses (the invitations, «SPEECH BY TOAD» and «not one little song»)» 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	_	10 gone	mark
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 invitations	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Toad	case
8	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gone	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 gone	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go out a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Toad's invitations	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	invite		Toad	nom invitation «communication 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

Everyone would have been bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 bored	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bored	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 bored	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 bored	aux:pass
5	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore	would · perfect · passive		Everyone					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The guests would have laughed at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guests	det
2	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laughed	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 laughed	aux
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	would · perfect · passive		the guests				at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Badger would be cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The guests would have cheered him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guests	det
2	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cheered	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cheered	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cheered	aux
5	cheered	cheer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	would · perfect · passive		the guests					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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