Test 4 · Chornobyl and independence in 1991

If the authorities had warned Kyiv at once, what might have happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: authorities · What happens: warn, happen · To what, where: Kyiv

This is test 4 of lesson 48 «Chornobyl and independence in 1991» 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	_	5 warned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 authorities	det
3	authorities	authority	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 warned	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 warned	aux
5	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 happened	advcl
6	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 warned	iobj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 warned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 warned	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happened	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 happened	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 happened	aux
13	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the authorities		Kyiv				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kyiv=Recipient
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fewer people would have been outside at the parade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 outside	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 outside	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 outside	cop
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 people	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 parade	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 parade	det
9	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 outside	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect				the parade		outside property	tree rules

Option 2

Nothing could have been different

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 different	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 different	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 different	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 different	cop
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could · perfect	Nothing					different property	tree rules

Option 3

Sweden would have closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 closed	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 closed	aux
4	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	would · perfect · passive		Sweden					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

The reactor would not have exploded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reactor	det
2	reactor	reactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exploded	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 exploded	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 exploded	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 exploded	aux
6	exploded	explode	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not explode	would · perfect · passive		the reactor					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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