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Test 7 · Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time

Ivy's game has armies always ready. What would happen in real life if all soldiers left at harvest time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: game, soldiers · What happens: have, happen, leave · To what, where: armies, real life

This is test 7 of lesson 68 «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» 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

Sentence 1: Ivy's game has armies always ready.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivy	Ivy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 game	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ivy	case
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 ready	advmod
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 has	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Ivy's game	armies				ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=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.

Sentence 2: What would happen in real life if all soldiers left at harvest time?

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	in	in	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 left	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 soldiers	det
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 left	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 time	case
12	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 time	compound
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				real life			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	participle	all soldiers				time		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Harvests would double, because soldiers are lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harvests	harvest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 double	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 double	aux
3	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lazy	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 lazy	mark
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lazy	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lazy	cop
8	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 double	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double	would	Harvests						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	soldiers					lazy property	tree rules

Option 2

Armies would get much stronger and bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 stronger	advmod
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bigger	cc
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 stronger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Armies					strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Crops would rot and people go hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rot	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rot	aux
3	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 go	cc
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rot	conj
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	would	Crops						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	go	present	people					hungry property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing at all would happen to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 happen	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	Nothing					to anyone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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