Test 9 · ★ · Explorers: around Africa and Columbus

Why would a new sea route to India make Portugal rich?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new sea route · What happens: make · To what, where: Portugal

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 26 «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 make	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 route	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 route	amod
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 route	compound
6	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 India	case
8	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 route	nmod
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 make	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	a new sea route to India	Portugal				rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset portugal=Product

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

India paid Portugal to visit with gold every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 visit	mark
5	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 paid	advcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	India	Portugal					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portugal=Asset
2	visit	to-infinitive	India not said here				year	with gold	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gold=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It could buy spices directly and sell them in Europe

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 buy	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 buy	aux
3	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 buy	obj
5	directly	directly	ADV	_	3 buy	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sell	cc
7	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 buy	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sell	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Europe	case
10	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	could	It	spices				directly property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spice=Theme
2	sell	infinitive		spices = spice		Europe			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Spices were free in Portugal for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 free	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 free	cop
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Portugal	case
5	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 free	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 free	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Spices			Portugal		for everyone; free property	tree rules

Option 4

Ships could carry gold mines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mines	compound
5	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	could	Ships	gold mines					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mine=Theme

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