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Test 4 · Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes

Hassan's uncle says his ancestors sailed with the monsoon winds. What would happen if a sailor ignored the season?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: uncle, ancestors, sailor · What happens: say, sail, happen, ignore · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 70 «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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: Hassan's uncle says his ancestors sailed with the monsoon winds.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hassan	case
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ancestors	nmod:poss
6	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sailed	nsubj
7	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 winds	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 winds	det
10	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 winds	compound
11	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sailed	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Hassan's uncle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sail	past	uncle's ancestors					with the monsoon winds	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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.

Sentence 2: What would happen if a sailor ignored the season?

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	_	7 ignored	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sailor	det
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ignored	nsubj
7	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 season	det
9	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ignored	obj
10	?	?	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	ignore a condition, not said to happen	past	a sailor				season		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The winds would blow against him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 winds	det
2	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 blow	aux
4	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	against	against	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	would	the winds					against him = he	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The whole sea would freeze over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sea	amod
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 freeze	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 freeze	aux
5	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 freeze	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze over	would	the whole sea					over property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Nothing at all would happen

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

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

Option 4

He would arrive there much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrive	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 arrive	aux
3	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 arrive	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 faster	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 arrive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	would	He			there		fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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