Test 4 · ★ · Borders: why they are where they are

If the Tordesillas line had been drawn 1,000 leagues further west, what would most likely be different?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: draw, be · To what, where: Tordesillas line

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 31 «Borders: why they are where they are» 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	_	7 drawn	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 line	det
3	Tordesillas	Tordesillas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 line	compound
4	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drawn	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 drawn	aux:pass
7	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 different	advcl
8	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 leagues	nummod
9	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drawn	obj
10	further	further	ADV	_	11 west	advmod
11	west	west	ADV	_	7 drawn	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 drawn	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 different	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 different	aux
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 likely	advmod
16	likely	likely	ADV	_	18 different	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 different	cop
18	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 different	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the Tordesillas line				west property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary league=Result
2	is	would						different, likely property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Much more of South America might speak Portuguese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Much	much	ADV	_	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 America	amod
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 America	case
4	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 America	compound
5	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 speak	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 speak	aux
7	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 speak	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	might	more South America	Portuguese					tree rules

Option 2

Nothing, the line did not matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 line	det
4	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matter	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 matter	advmod
7	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	past · do-support	the line						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Spain would have owned Portugal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 owned	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 owned	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 owned	aux
4	owned	own	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 owned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	would · perfect	Spain	Portugal					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot portugal=Theme

Option 4

Brazil would speak French, because France would have taken it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 speak	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 speak	aux
3	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 speak	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 taken	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 taken	mark
7	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 taken	nsubj:pass
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 taken	aux
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 speak	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 taken	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	would	Brazil	French					tree rules
2	take	would · perfect · passive		France					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme it=Destination

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