Test 5 · ★★ · Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs

If the Rosetta Stone had only hieroglyphs on it, what would be different?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rosetta Stone, hieroglyphs · What happens: have, be · To what, where: hieroglyphs, it

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» 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 had	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Stone	det
3	Rosetta	Rosetta	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Stone	compound
4	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 hieroglyphs	advmod
7	hieroglyphs	hieroglyph	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hieroglyphs	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 different	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 different	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 different	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 different	cop
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hieroglyphs	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Rosetta Stone	hieroglyphs		it			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hieroglyph=Patient
2	is	would	hieroglyphs					different property	tree rules

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

It would have been easier to read

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	5 easier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 easier	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 easier	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 easier	cop
5	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 read	mark
7	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	It					easy property	tree rules
2	read	to-infinitive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Champollion would have read it faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Champollion	Champollion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 read	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 read	aux
4	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	obj
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	would · perfect · passive		Champollion				fast property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would not have helped to read them

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	5 helped	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 helped	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 helped	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 helped	aux
5	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 read	mark
7	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 helped	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	would · perfect · passive		It					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	read not said to happen	to-infinitive		them = they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 4

Nothing would change at all

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	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

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

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