Test 7 · ★ · China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Grea…

If coins and weights were different in every region, what would happen to trade?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coins, region · What happens: be, happen, trade · To what, where: region

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 52 «China: the First Emperor, the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall» 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	_	6 different	mark
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 different	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 weights	cc
4	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 coins	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 different	cop
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 region	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 region	det
9	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 different	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 happen	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happen	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 happen	aux
13	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 region	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 trade	mark
15	trade	trade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 happen	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 different	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	coins and weights	every region	different property	tree rules
2	happen	would	every region			tree rules
3	trade	to-infinitive	every region not said here			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Coins would disappear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 disappear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 disappear	aux
3	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would be slower and more confusing

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	4 slower	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slower	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 slower	cop
4	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 confusing	cc
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 confusing	advmod
7	confusing	confusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slower	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					slow property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

It would be faster

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	2 would	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 faster	cop
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 would	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						fast property	tree rules

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