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Test 7 · Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean

Your friend thinks the Mediterranean was the centre of world trade forever. What changed after 1500?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, Mediterranean · What happens: think, be, change · To what, where: centre · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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

Sentence 1: Your friend thinks the Mediterranean was the centre of world trade forever.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	nsubj
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 centre	det
5	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 centre	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 centre	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 centre	det
8	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 trade	case
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trade	compound
11	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 centre	nmod
12	forever	forever	ADV	_	11 trade	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Your friend						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Mediterranean	the centre				of world trade	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.

Sentence 2: What changed after 1500?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 1500	case
4	1500	1500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 changed	obl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 changed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past					after 1500		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

It dried up and could no longer be sailed

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	2 dried	nsubj
2	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 dried	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sailed	cc
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sailed	aux
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 sailed	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sailed	aux:pass
9	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry up	past	It						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sail	could · passive						long property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ocean routes grew and it slowly became less central

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 routes	compound
2	routes	route	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 became	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 became	nsubj
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 became	advmod
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
8	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 central	advmod
9	central	central	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Ocean routes						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	it					central, slowly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Nothing ever changed there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 changed	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 changed	advmod
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 changed	advmod

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

Option 4

Ships were banned from it by the Pope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banned	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banned	aux:pass
3	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 banned	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Pope	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Pope	det
8	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · passive	the Pope	Ships		it			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer subject=Beneficiary from it=Eventuality

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