Test 9 · Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes
In EU4 trade just flows between nodes on the map. In real life, how do most goods move today?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: most goods · What happens: flow, move · To what, where: EU4 trade, real life
This is test 9 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: In EU4 trade just flows between nodes on the map.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 trade | case |
| 2 | EU4 | EU4 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 trade | compound |
| 3 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flows | obl |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 flows | advmod |
| 5 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 nodes | case |
| 7 | nodes | node | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flows | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 map | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 map | det |
| 10 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nodes | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | EU4 trade | between nodes on the map | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trade=Location |
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: In real life, how do most goods move today?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 life | case |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 life | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 move | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 move | punct |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 move | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 move | aux |
| 7 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 goods | amod |
| 8 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 move | nsubj |
| 9 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 move | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 move | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · do-support | most goods | real life | today | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in life=Trajectory |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
In standard containers on huge ships
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 containers | case |
| 2 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 containers | amod |
| 3 | containers | container | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 ships | case |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ships | amod |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 containers | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
In the pockets of travellers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 pockets | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pockets | det |
| 3 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root | |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 travellers | case |
| 5 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pockets | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
On camels across the great deserts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 camels | case |
| 2 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 deserts | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 deserts | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deserts | amod |
| 6 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 camels | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
In planes only, because they're fastest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 planes | case |
| 2 | planes | plane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fastest | obl |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 planes | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 planes | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 fastest | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fastest | nsubj |
| 7 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fastest | cop |
| 8 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | planes = plane | planes | fast property | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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