Test 8 · ★ · From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires a…

What would happen if a border were drawn straight through a people's land?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, draw · To what, where: border, land

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 66 «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 drawn	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 border	det
6	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drawn	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drawn	aux:pass
8	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 land	advmod
10	through	through	ADP	_	14 land	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 land	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 people	case
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drawn	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	draw a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a border		a people's land			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 land would slowly turn into a lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 land	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 lake	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the land			a lake		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lake=Trajectory

Option 2

Everyone would happily move to one side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
3	happily	happily	ADV	_	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 side	nummod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	Everyone			one side		happily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Families and peoples could be split apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 split	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 peoples	cc
3	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Families	conj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 split	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 split	aux:pass
6	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	apart	apart	ADV	_	6 split	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	could · passive		Families and peoples				apart property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Nothing, because borders never change anything for anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 change	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 change	mark
4	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 change	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 change	advmod
6	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	conj
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 change	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	borders	anything				for anyone	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent anything=Theme for anyone=Co-Theme

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