Test 2 · Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs

What would happen to Egypt's farms if the Nile stopped flooding?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nile · What happens: happen, stop, flood

This is test 2 of lesson 5 «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» 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	_	7 farms	case
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 farms	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Egypt	case
7	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 stopped	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Nile	det
10	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stopped	nsubj
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	flooding	flood	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stopped	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		to Egypt's farms	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	the Nile		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	flood	gerund	the Nile not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

The fields would not get new mud and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fields	det
2	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mud	amod
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 water	cc
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mud	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	would	the fields	new mud and water					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mud=Stimulus

Option 2

Egypt would become a jungle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jungle	det
5	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Egypt	a jungle					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, as it rained every day there anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 rained	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rained	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 rained	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rained	nsubj
5	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rained	obl:unmarked
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 rained	advmod
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 rained	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	past	Nothing			there	day	anyway property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 4

The crops would grow twice as fast as before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crops	det
2	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 fast	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 grow	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 before	case
9	before	before	ADV	_	7 fast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the crops					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/t2/