Test 4 · ★ · Computers and the internet

If Tim Berners-Lee had charged money for every website, what would probably have happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: website · What happens: charge, happen · To what, where: Tim

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 36 «Computers and the internet» 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	_	7 charged	mark
2	Tim	Tim	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 charged	nsubj:pass
3	Berners	Berners	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tim	flat
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Tim	punct
5	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tim	flat
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 charged	aux
7	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 charged	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 website	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 website	det
11	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 charged	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happened	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happened	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happened	aux
15	probably	probably	ADV	_	17 happened	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 happened	aux
17	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 website	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 charged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	past · perfect · passive		Tim				for every website	vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient money=Asset
2	happen	would · perfect	every website					probably property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Far fewer people would have made websites

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	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 websites	amod
7	websites	website	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	fewer people	made websites					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent website=Patient
2	make	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

Everyone would have used the web a lot more than they do today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	aux
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 web	det
6	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 do	advmod
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 do	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	conj
13	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	would · perfect · passive		Everyone				a lot obl	tree rules
2	do	present	they				today		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The internet would go faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 internet	det
2	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the internet					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing would change

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

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

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