Test 6 · ★★ · Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the othe…

What would happen if a big ship blocked the narrow Bab-el-Mandeb?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: big ship · What happens: happen, block · To what, where: narrow Bab el

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 blocked	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ship	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ship	amod
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blocked	nsubj
8	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 el	det
10	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 el	amod
11	Bab	bab	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 el	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Bab	punct
13	el	el	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blocked	obj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Mandeb	punct
15	Mandeb	Mandeb	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 el	appos
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	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	block a condition, not said to happen	past	a big ship	the narrow Bab el					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer el=Theme

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

The Red Sea would slowly start to dry up without the water from the ocean

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sea	det
2	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sea	compound
3	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 start	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 start	aux
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 start	advmod
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 dry	mark
8	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 start	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 dry	compound:prt
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dry	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 ocean	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ocean	det
15	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	the Red Sea					slowly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	dry up	to-infinitive	the Red Sea not said here			the ocean		without the water	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Ships could simply sail round it, as the strait there is hundreds of kilometres wide

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sail	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sail	aux
3	simply	simply	ADV	_	4 sail	advmod
4	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sail	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 is	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 strait	det
10	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	nsubj
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sail	conj
13	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 is	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 kilometres	case
15	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hundreds	nmod
16	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 is	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	could	Ships			it		simply property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round it=Trajectory
2	be	present	the strait			there		wide property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing much, because almost no ships use the Red Sea route these days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 use	mark
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 ships	advmod
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 ships	det
7	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 use	nsubj
8	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 route	det
10	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Sea	compound
11	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 route	compound
12	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	obj
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 days	det
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 use	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	no ships	the Sea route			day		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ships between Suez and the Indian Ocean would be held up or go round Africa

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 held	nsubj:pass
2	between	between	ADP	_	3 Suez	case
3	Suez	Suez	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ships	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Ocean	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Ocean	det
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Ocean	amod
7	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Suez	conj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 held	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 held	aux:pass
10	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 held	compound:prt
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 go	cc
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 held	conj
14	round	round	ADP	_	15 Africa	case
15	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	would · passive		Ships between Suez and the Indian Ocean					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	go	infinitive				Africa			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round africa=Initial_Location

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