Test 8 · ★ · Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols

What would happen to a country if its rulers fought each other for decades?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rulers · What happens: happen, fight · To what, where: each

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 42 «Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols» 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	_	6 country	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 fought	mark
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rulers	nmod:poss
9	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fought	nsubj
10	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 fought	obj
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 decades	case
14	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fought	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a country	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fight a condition, not said to happen	past	country's rulers	each			decade		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice

Enemies would be too scared to come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scared	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 scared	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 scared	advmod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Enemies					scared property	tree rules
2	come	to-infinitive	Enemies not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would grow weaker and easier for enemies to attack

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 easier	cc
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 weaker	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 enemies	case
8	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 attack	mark
10	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					for enemies; weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	attack	to-infinitive							vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would grow stronger every year

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It				year	strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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