Test 3 · ★ · Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew

If the fur trade had been worthless, what would most likely have been different?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fur trade · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 34 «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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 worthless	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trade	det
3	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trade	compound
4	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worthless	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 worthless	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 worthless	cop
7	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 different	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 worthless	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 different	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 different	aux
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 likely	advmod
12	likely	likely	ADV	_	15 different	advmod
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 different	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 different	cop
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 different	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the fur trade					worthless property	tree rules
2	is	would · perfect						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

Serfdom would have ended in 1480

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Serfdom	serfdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ended	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ended	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 ended	aux
4	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1480	case
6	1480	1480	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	would · perfect · passive		Serfdom		1480			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Russia would have had less reason to push across Siberia so fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	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	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 reason	amod
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 push	mark
8	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reason	acl
9	across	across	ADP	_	10 Siberia	case
10	Siberia	Siberia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 push	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 fast	advmod
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would · perfect	Russia	less reason					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	push	to-infinitive	Russia not said here	less reason not said here		Siberia		fast property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent across siberia=Trajectory

Option 3

Russia would have reached America in 1340

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Russia	Russia	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	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1340	case
7	1340	1340	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 reached	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	would · perfect	Russia	America		1340			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent america=Theme

Option 4

Peter the Great would never have been born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 born	nsubj:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Great	det
3	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Peter	flat
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 born	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 born	advmod
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 born	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 born	aux:pass
8	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bear	would · perfect · passive		Peter					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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