Test 8 · ★★ · Resources and what countries trade

If every country tried to make absolutely everything itself, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: country · What happens: try, make, happen · To what, where: everything

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 tried	mark
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 country	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp
7	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	8 everything	advmod
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 make	obj
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	8 everything	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 happen	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happen	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 happen	aux
13	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 everything	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	try	past	every country		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	every country not said here	everything	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product
3	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Nothing would change at all

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	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Everything would become much cheaper, because there would be no more transport costs at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 cheaper	advmod
5	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 costs	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 costs	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 costs	expl
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 costs	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 transport	cop
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 transport	amod
13	transport	transport	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 costs	csubj
14	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 become	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 costs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	would	Everything			cheap property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is a	infinitive		more transport			tree rules
3	cost	would			all; there		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many things would be dearer or worse, as each would make things it is bad at

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dearer	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 dearer	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 dearer	cop
5	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 worse	cc
7	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 dearer	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 make	mark
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 make	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 make	aux
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dearer	parataxis
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	obj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bad	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bad	cop
16	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	acl:relcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	16 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	Many things		dear property	tree rules
2	be		Many things not said here			tree rules
3	make	would	each	things		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product
4	is	present	it	things not said here	bad property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Every country would grow bananas easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obj
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	every country	bananas				easily property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location banana=Theme

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