Test 12 · The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war

If Ukraine's grain ports stayed blocked for years, what would most likely happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: block, happen · To what, where: grain ports

This is test 12 of lesson 49 «The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the 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	_	7 blocked	mark
2	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ports	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Ukraine	case
4	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ports	compound
5	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blocked	nsubj:pass
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blocked	aux:pass
7	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 happen	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blocked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 blocked	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happen	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 happen	aux
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 likely	advmod
14	likely	likely	ADV	_	15 happen	advmod
15	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Ukraine's grain ports			year		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	happen	would						likely 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

Bread and oil would cost more in many countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cost	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 oil	cc
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bread	conj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cost	aux
5	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 cost	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 countries	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 countries	amod
9	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	would	Bread and oil	more		many countries			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value

Option 2

Only Ukraine would notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 notice	advmod
2	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 notice	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	aux
4	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	would	Ukraine						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nothing would change anywhere

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	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 change	advmod

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

Option 4

Food would get cheaper everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Food					cheap, everywhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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