Test 3 · ★★ · Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the othe…

Why did Denmark grow rich from a narrow strait?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Denmark · What happens: grow

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 grow	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grow	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 strait	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 strait	det
8	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 strait	amod
9	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · do-support	Denmark					from a narrow strait; rich property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from strait=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice

The best fish in Europe only lived in the Øresund's water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Europe	case
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fish	nmod
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 lived	advmod
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Øresund	det
10	Øresund	Øresund	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 water	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Øresund	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the best fish in Europe			the Øresund's water			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location

Option 2

Denmark sold barrels of the strait's clean water to Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sold	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 strait	det
6	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 strait	case
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barrels	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Europe	case
11	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	Denmark	barrels of the strait's clean water	Europe				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme to europe=Recipient

Option 3

Denmark owned nearly every merchant ship in the Baltic Sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 owned	nsubj
2	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 ship	advmod
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ship	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ship	compound
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 owned	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 Sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sea	det
9	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	_	10 Sea	compound
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 owned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	Denmark	every merchant ship		the Baltic Sea			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ship=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Every foreign ship through the Øresund had to pay a toll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ship	det
2	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ship	amod
3	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 Øresund	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Øresund	det
6	Øresund	Øresund	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ship	nmod
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pay	mark
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 toll	det
11	toll	toll	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	every foreign ship through the Øresund						tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive	every foreign ship through the Øresund not said here	a toll					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toll=Asset

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