Test 3 · ★★ · Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people alrea…

If Magellan's sailors had had lots of lemons on board, what would probably have changed?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sailors, lots · What happens: have, change

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» 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	_	6 had	mark
2	Magellan	Magellan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sailors	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Magellan	case
4	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	aux
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 changed	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 lemons	case
9	lemons	lemon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lots	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 board	case
11	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lemons	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 changed	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 changed	obl
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 changed	aux
15	probably	probably	ADV	_	17 changed	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 changed	aux
17	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 had	xcomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · perfect	Magellan's sailors						tree rules
2	change	would · perfect	lots of lemons on board					probably property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Far fewer would have died of scurvy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fewer	advmod
2	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 died	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 died	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 died	aux
5	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 scurvy	case
7	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would · perfect	fewer					of scurvy	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of scurvy=Causer

Option 2

They would have sailed backwards

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 sailed	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sailed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sailed	aux
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	4 sailed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	would · perfect	They					backwards property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

Option 4

They would have reached Asia in a day

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 reached	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 reached	aux
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	would · perfect	They	Asia			day		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent asia=Theme

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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