Test 7 · The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings

What would happen if a longship were heavy and deep?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: longship · What happens: happen, be

This is test 7 of lesson 20 «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» of the history 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 heavy	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 longship	det
6	longship	longship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heavy	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heavy	cop
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happen	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 deep	cc
10	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heavy	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	a longship	heavy property	tree rules
3	be		a longship not said here		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

It would carry no one

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 carry	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	would	It	no one					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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

It could not sail up shallow rivers

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 sail	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sail	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sail	advmod
4	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sail	compound:prt
6	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rivers	amod
7	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sail	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sail up	could	It	shallow rivers					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory

Option 3

It would fly faster than any other ship afloat

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 fly	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 ship	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 ship	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ship	amod
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faster	obl
9	afloat	afloat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ship	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	It					fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would never sink, even in storms

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 sink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sink	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 sink	advmod
4	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 storms	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	8 storms	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 storms	case
8	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sink	would	It			storms			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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