Test 3 · ★★ · The Second World War

If Britain had given up in 1940, what might have happened?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Britain · What happens: give up, happen · To what, where: 1940

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 34 «The Second 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 given	mark
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 given	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 happened	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 given	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1940	case
7	1940	1940	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 given	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happened	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 happened	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 happened	aux
12	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Britain			1940			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	happen	might · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nothing at all would have changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 changed	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 changed	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 changed	aux
6	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Germany would have controlled nearly all of western Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 controlled	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 controlled	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 controlled	aux
4	controlled	control	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 all	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 controlled	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Europe	case
8	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Europe	amod
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	control	would · perfect · passive		Germany					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The war would have ended happily and everyone would be friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 war	det
2	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ended	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ended	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 ended	aux
5	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	happily	happily	ADV	_	5 ended	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 friends	cc
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 friends	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 friends	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 friends	cop
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ended	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	would · perfect	the war					happily property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	would	everyone	friends					tree rules

Option 4

Britain would have conquered Germany soon after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 conquered	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 conquered	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 conquered	aux
4	conquered	conquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 conquered	obj
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 conquered	advmod
7	after	after	ADP	_	4 conquered	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conquer after	would · perfect	Britain	Germany				soon property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germany=Patient

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