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title: What would happen if the Badger had come one hour later? — The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the Badger had come one hour later? Test 14 · ★★★ of lesson 45 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 14 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the…

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What would happen if the Badger had come one hour later?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Badger · **What happens:** happen, come

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This is test 14 · ★★★ of lesson 45 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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/45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad:t14:1
# text = What would happen if the Badger had come one hour later?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | the Badger |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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The car would have been sold at the auction

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad:t14:o1:1
# text = The car would have been sold at the auction
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
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	aux:pass	_	_
6	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	auction	auction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | would · perfect · passive |  | the car |  | the auction |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at auction=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Toad might already have roared off in the new car and been caught by the police miles away

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad:t14:o2:1
# text = Toad might already have roared off in the new car and been caught by the police miles away
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	roared	roar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar off** | might · perfect · passive |  | Toad |  | the new car |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | participle · passive | police miles |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Toad would have been furious and sent for the police

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad:t14:o3:1
# text = Toad would have been furious and sent for the police
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | Toad |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | participle | Toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the police | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Toad might already have roared off in the new car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:45-willows-ch6-part1-the-hour-of-toad:t14:o4:1
# text = Toad might already have roared off in the new car
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	roared	roar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roar off** | might · perfect · passive |  | Toad |  | the new car |  |  | tree rules |

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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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