Test 7 · ★★ · China: the Song and the Mongols

If storms had not hit the Mongol fleets, what might have changed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: storms · What happens: not hit, change · To what, where: Mongol fleets

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 55 «China: the Song 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 hit	mark
2	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hit	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hit	advmod
5	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 changed	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fleets	det
7	Mongol	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fleets	compound
8	fleets	fleet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hit	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hit	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 changed	nsubj:pass
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 changed	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 changed	aux
13	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 changed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hit a condition, not said to happen	past	storms	the Mongol fleets					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fleet=Co-Theme
2	change	might · perfect · passive							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 invasions of Japan might have gone differently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 invasions	det
2	invasions	invasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gone	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Japan	case
4	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 invasions	nmod
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	differently	differently	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	might · perfect	the invasions of Japan					differently property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	invade			Japan					nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Nothing could 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	could	could	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	could	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Gunpowder would vanish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gunpowder	gunpowder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vanish	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 vanish	aux
3	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Option 4

The Song would rule Japan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Song	det
2	Song	Song	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rule	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rule	aux
4	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rule	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	would	the Song	Japan					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent japan=Result

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