Test 12 · What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religion…

What would have happened if ships had never crossed the Atlantic after 1492?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, not cross · To what, where: ships

This is test 12 of lesson 71 «What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases» 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	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 crossed	mark
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 crossed	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 crossed	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 crossed	advmod
9	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Atlantic	det
11	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 crossed	obj
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 1492	case
13	1492	1492	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 crossed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not cross a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		ships			after 1492		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 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing would change in any kitchen

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	in	in	ADP	_	6 kitchen	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 kitchen	det
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl

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

Option 2

Italy would have more tomatoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 tomatoes	amod
5	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Italy	more tomatoes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomato=Patient

Option 3

Tea would never have reached Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 reached	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 reached	aux
5	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	would · perfect · passive		Tea					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary britain=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Europe, Asia and Africa would have no tomatoes, potatoes, chillies or cacao

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Asia	punct
3	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Europe	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Africa	cc
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Europe	conj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 tomatoes	det
9	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 potatoes	punct
11	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tomatoes	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chillies	punct
13	chillies	chilli	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tomatoes	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 cacao	cc
15	cacao	cacao	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tomatoes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Europe and Asia and Africa	no tomatoes and potatoes and chillies or cacao					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomato=Patient

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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