Test 11 · ★★★ · The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies

If EU5 added winter stopping campaigns, slow letters and uneven harvests, how would the game feel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: EU5, game · What happens: add, stop, feel · To what, where: winter stopping campaigns

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «The game map and the real map: what EU5 simplifies» 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	_	3 added	mark
2	EU5	EU5	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 added	nsubj
3	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 feel	advcl
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 campaigns	compound
5	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 campaigns	amod
6	campaigns	campaign	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 added	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 letters	punct
8	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 letters	amod
9	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 campaigns	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 harvests	cc
11	uneven	uneven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 harvests	amod
12	harvests	harvest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 campaigns	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feel	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 feel	advmod
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 feel	aux
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 game	det
17	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feel	nsubj
18	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	add speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	EU5	winter stopping campaigns and slow letters and uneven harvests	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent campaign=Patient
2	stop	gerund			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	feel	would	the game		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

It would have no wars at all

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	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 wars	det
5	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	It	no wars		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient

Option 2

Exactly the same as now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 same	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 now	case
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 same	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Faster and easier than before, with shorter wars and more battles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 wars	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 easier	cc
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Faster	conj
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 before	case
5	before	before	ADV	_	3 easier	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wars	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 wars	case
8	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 wars	amod
9	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 battles	cc
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 battles	amod
12	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wars	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Slower and more unpredictable, more like real history

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slower	slow	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 unpredictable	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 unpredictable	cc
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 unpredictable	advmod
4	unpredictable	unpredictable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 more	punct
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 unpredictable	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 history	case
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 history	amod
9	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unpredictable	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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