Test 4 · Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean

If Venice had been built on open farmland instead of a lagoon, what would most likely be different?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lagoon · What happens: build, be · To what, where: Venice, open farmland

This is test 4 of lesson 32 «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» 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	_	2 Venice	mark
2	Venice	Venice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 built	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 built	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 built	aux:pass
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 farmland	case
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 farmland	amod
8	farmland	farmland	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obl
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 lagoon	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lagoon	det
12	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 different	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 different	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 different	aux
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 likely	advmod
17	likely	likely	ADV	_	19 different	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 different	cop
19	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lagoon	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 built	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · perfect · passive		Venice		open farmland		instead a lagoon	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on farmland=Source
2	is	would	a lagoon					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

Nothing, because a lagoon gives no protection to a city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 gives	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gives	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 gives	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lagoon	det
5	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 protection	det
8	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 city	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Nothing	no protection	a city				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent protection=Theme to city=Recipient

Option 2

It would have been much richer from the spice trade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 richer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 richer	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 richer	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 richer	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 richer	advmod
6	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 trade	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trade	det
9	spice	spice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trade	compound
10	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 richer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	It			the spice trade		rich property	tree rules

Option 3

It would have had more ships

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	aux
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 ships	amod
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would · perfect	It	more ships					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would have been much easier for armies to attack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 easier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 easier	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 easier	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 easier	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 easier	advmod
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 armies	case
8	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 easier	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 attack	mark
10	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	It					for armies; easy property	tree rules
2	attack	to-infinitive							vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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