Test 3 · ★★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child…

What would have happened if the Snake had not helped?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Snake · What happens: happen, not help

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 80 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 5: The Elephant's Child, part 2 (the tug-of-war and the trunk)» 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 helped	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Snake	det
7	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 helped	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 helped	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 helped	advmod
10	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
11	?	?	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	not help a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the Snake						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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

The Crocodile might have pulled him into the river and eaten him for his supper

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crocodile	det
2	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 pulled	aux
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulled	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eaten	cc
11	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 pulled	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eaten	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 supper	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 supper	nmod:poss
15	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	might · perfect	the Crocodile	him = he		the river			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
2	eat	participle	the Crocodile not said here	Crocodile				for Crocodile's supper	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The Crocodile might have pulled him into the deep river, and nobody would ever have known where he went

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crocodile	det
2	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 pulled	aux
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulled	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 river	amod
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 known	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 known	cc
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 known	nsubj:pass
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 known	aux
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 known	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 known	aux
17	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pulled	conj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 went	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 known	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pull	might · perfect	the Crocodile	him = he	the deep river		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
2	know	would · perfect · passive		nobody		ever	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	go	past	Crocodile				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Crocodile might have pulled him into the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crocodile	det
2	Crocodile	Crocodile	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pulled	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 pulled	aux
5	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulled	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	might · perfect	the Crocodile	him = he		the river			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result

Option 4

The Hippopotamus would have spanked him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hippopotamus	det
2	Hippopotamus	Hippopotamus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spanked	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spanked	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 spanked	aux
5	spanked	spank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spanked	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 spanked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spank	would · perfect · passive		the Hippopotamus			again		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient he=Result

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