Test 11 · Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires

If no new diseases had crossed the ocean, what would most likely be different?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: new diseases, ocean · What happens: cross, be · To what, where: ocean

This is test 11 of lesson 33 «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» 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	_	6 crossed	mark
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 diseases	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 diseases	amod
4	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crossed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crossed	aux
6	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ocean	det
8	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crossed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 different	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 different	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 different	aux
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 likely	advmod
13	likely	likely	ADV	_	15 different	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 different	cop
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ocean	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 crossed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past · perfect	no new diseases	the ocean					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient
2	is	would	the ocean					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

Far fewer Indigenous people would have died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fewer	advmod
2	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 people	amod
3	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 died	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 died	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 died	aux
7	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would · perfect	fewer Indigenous people						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

The Taíno would have spoken Spanish already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Taíno	det
2	Taíno	Taíno	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spoken	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spoken	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 spoken	aux
5	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spoken	xcomp
7	already	already	ADV	_	5 spoken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	would · perfect · passive		the Taíno				spanish property	tree rules

Option 3

Spain would have lost Granada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would · perfect	Spain	Granada					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent granada=Eventuality

Option 4

Columbus would have reached Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reached	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 reached	aux
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	would · perfect	Columbus	Asia					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent asia=Theme

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