Test 7 · ★★★ · Winds, monsoons and ocean currents

What would happen to sailing ships if the trade winds stopped blowing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trade winds · What happens: happen, sail, stop, blow

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 22 «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» 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	to	to	ADP	_	6 ships	case
5	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 ships	amod
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 stopped	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 winds	det
9	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 winds	compound
10	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stopped	nsubj
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stopped	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		to sailing ships	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sail	gerund			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	the trade winds		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	blow	gerund	the trade winds not said here		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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

The Gulf Stream would turn cold at once and stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Stream	det
2	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Stream	compound
3	Stream	Stream	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turn	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 turn	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stop	cc
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the Gulf Stream					cold property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
2	stop	infinitive	the Gulf Stream not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Ships would sail much faster westwards across the ocean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sail	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sail	aux
3	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sail	advmod
6	westwards	westwards	ADV	_	3 sail	advmod
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 ocean	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ocean	det
9	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sail	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	would	Ships			the ocean		westwards property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across ocean=Trajectory

Option 3

The monsoon would blow all year round instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monsoon	det
2	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 blow	aux
4	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blow	obj
7	round	round	ADV	_	4 blow	advmod
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 blow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	would	the monsoon				year	instead, round property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Crossing the tropical Atlantic would take far longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 take	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Atlantic	det
3	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Atlantic	amod
4	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Crossing	obj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund		the tropical Atlantic					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atlantic=Patient
2	take	would	Crossing					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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