Test 4 · ★ · The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world

What would have happened to many Greek books if nobody had translated them into Arabic?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Arabic · What happens: happen, translate · To what, where: nobody

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 22 «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» 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	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 books	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 books	amod
7	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 books	amod
8	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happened	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 translated	mark
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 translated	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 translated	aux
12	translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 translated	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 Arabic	case
15	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 translated	obl:agent
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect						to many Greek books	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	translate a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	Arabic	nobody					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 · ✓ the right answer

Many would probably have been lost for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lost	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 lost	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 lost	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would · perfect · passive		Many				probably property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They would have turned into Latin by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 turned	aux
4	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 Latin	case
6	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would · perfect	They			Latin		by themselves = they	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into latin=Source by themselves=Trajectory

Option 3

They would have been written in English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 written	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 written	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 written	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 written	aux:pass
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 English	case
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	would · perfect · passive		They		English			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in english=Destination

Option 4

Nothing, everyone in Europe read Greek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 read	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 everyone	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Europe	case
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 everyone	nmod
6	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 read	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	Nothing					greek property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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