Test 3 · ★ · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages

If a village lost half its farm workers to the plague, what would happen to the pay of those left?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: village · What happens: lose, happen, leave, pay · To what, where: village, those

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 village	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 village	det
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 happen	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 village	acl
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	8 workers	det:predet
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 workers	nmod:poss
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 workers	compound
8	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obl:agent
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 plague	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plague	det
11	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 workers	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happen	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happen	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 happen	aux
15	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 pay	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pay	det
18	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 happen	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 those	case
20	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 pay	nmod
21	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 those	acl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	participle		a village not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	happen	would	a village		to the pay of those	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	participle				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pay			those		nom pay «possession transitive»: of=patient

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 fall to nothing

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 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	It					to nothing	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would usually go up

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 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 go	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	would	It					usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Workers would have to pay the lord more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pay	mark
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lord	det
7	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 pay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Workers						tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive	Workers not said here	the lord					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would stay exactly the same

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It					same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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