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title: What would have happened if Toad's invitations had gone out? — The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would have happened if Toad's invitations had gone out? 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, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter XII, part 3: The Return o…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t6:1
# text = What would have happened if Toad's invitations had gone out?
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	_	10	mark	_	_
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	invitations	invitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **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 |

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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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Everyone would have been bored

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t6:o1:1
# text = Everyone would have been bored
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
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	aux:pass	_	_
5	bored	bore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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The guests would have laughed at him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t6:o2:1
# text = The guests would have laughed at him
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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Badger would be cross

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t6:o3:1
# text = Badger would be cross
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	cross	cross	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 | Badger |  |  |  |  | cross *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The guests would have cheered him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs:t6:o4:1
# text = The guests would have cheered him
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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