Test 6 · ★ · The First World War

What would happen to food at home if ships bringing grain were sunk by submarines?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ships, submarines · What happens: happen, bring, sink · To what, where: home, grain, ships

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 33 «The First World War» 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	to	to	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 sunk	mark
9	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sunk	nsubj:pass
10	bringing	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 ships	acl
11	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bringing	obj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sunk	aux:pass
13	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 submarines	case
15	submarines	submarine	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sunk	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would			home	to food	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at home=Location
2	bring	gerund	ships not said here	grain			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grain=Theme
3	sink a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	submarines	ships			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

Prices would go down to zero

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 zero	case
6	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 go	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

There would be shortages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	shortages	shortage	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj

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

Option 3

There would be much more food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	more food			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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