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title: What would have happened if the Mole had kept asking about the wease… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would have happened if the Mole had kept asking about the weasels? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 26 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 8 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank…

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What would have happened if the Mole had kept asking about the weasels?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mole · **What happens:** happen, keep, ask · **To what, where:** Mole

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 26 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood:t8:1
# text = What would have happened if the Mole had kept asking about the weasels?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
10	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 Mole |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the Mole *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the weasels | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about weasel=Topic |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He would have broken animal-etiquette

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood:t8:o1:1
# text = He would have broken animal-etiquette
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	etiquette	etiquette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | would · perfect | He | animal etiquette |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer etiquette=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Rat would have stopped the boat and walked back to the Wild Wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood:t8:o2:1
# text = The Rat would have stopped the boat and walked back to the Wild Wood
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	14	flat	_	_
14	Wood	Wood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would · perfect | the Rat | the boat |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector boat=Eventuality |
| 2 | **walk back** | past | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Wild Wood *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wood=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Rat would have been angry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood:t8:o3:1
# text = The Rat would have been angry
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | the Rat |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Rat would have left him in the boat and gone home alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood:t8:o4:1
# text = The Rat would have left him in the boat and gone home alone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | would · perfect | the Rat |  | him *= he* | the boat |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in boat=Location |
| 2 | **go** | participle | the Rat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone, home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**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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