Test 2 · ★★ · Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the othe…

«what happens to petrol prices if ships can't get through hormuz» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ships, petrol prices · What happens: happen, not get, be · To what, where: petrol prices, hormuz, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» of the geography 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 happens	punct
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happens	nsubj
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 prices	mark
5	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prices	compound
6	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happens	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 get	mark
8	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 get	advmod
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 answer	advcl
12	through	through	ADP	_	13 hormuz	case
13	hormuz	Hormuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 get	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
15	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 answer	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 answer	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prices	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen in a quote	present		petrol prices		tree rules
2	not get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	ships		hormuz	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through hormuz=Destination
3	be speech: assert	present	petrol prices	the best answer		tree rules

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

Only the price of petrol in Iran would change, not anywhere else at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 price	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 price	det
3	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 change	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 petrol	case
5	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 price	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Iran	case
7	Iran	Iran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 petrol	nmod
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 change	aux
9	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 anywhere	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 anywhere	advmod
12	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 change	advmod
13	else	else	ADV	_	12 anywhere	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	the price of petrol in Iran			all		anywhere property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They would fall to almost nothing, because all the unsold oil would pile up in the Gulf

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 nothing	mark
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 nothing	advmod
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 fall	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pile	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 pile	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 oil	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 oil	det
11	unsold	unsol	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 oil	amod
12	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pile	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 pile	aux
14	pile	pile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fall	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 pile	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 Gulf	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Gulf	det
18	Gulf	gulf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pile	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	fall	would	They		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	unsol	participle			tree rules
3	pile up	would	all unsold oil	the Gulf	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in gulf=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Oil prices would likely jump, as about a fifth of the world's oil passes there

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prices	compound
2	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jump	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 jump	aux
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 jump	advmod
5	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 passes	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 passes	mark
8	about	about	ADV	_	10 fifth	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fifth	det
10	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passes	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 oil	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 oil	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 world	case
15	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fifth	nmod
16	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jump	advcl
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 passes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	would	Oil prices					likely property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	present	a fifth of the world's oil			there			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing would change, because almost all oil travels by pipeline instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 travels	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 travels	mark
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 all	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 oil	det
8	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 travels	nsubj
9	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 change	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 pipeline	case
11	pipeline	pipeline	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 travels	obl
12	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 change	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing					instead property	tree rules
2	travel	present	all oil					by pipeline	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pipeline=Trajectory

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