Test 12 · ★ · What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music…

What would have happened if cinchona bark had never left the Andes?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, not leave · To what, where: cinchona bark

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 77 «What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge» 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	_	10 left	mark
6	cinchona	cinchona	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bark	compound
7	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 left	advmod
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Andes	det
12	Andes	Ande	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 left	obj
13	?	?	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 leave a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		cinchona bark					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme ande=Attribute

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

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Malaria would have disappeared on its own, since bark never really helped anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Malaria	malaria	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappeared	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 disappeared	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 disappeared	aux
4	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 disappeared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 helped	punct
9	since	since	SCONJ	_	13 helped	mark
10	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 helped	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 helped	advmod
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 helped	advmod
13	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disappeared	parataxis
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	would · perfect · passive		Malaria		Malaria's own			tree rules
2	not help	past	bark		anyone				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Beneficiary

Option 3

Europeans would have invented chocolate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Europeans	european	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 invented	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 invented	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 invented	aux
4	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invented	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	would · perfect · passive		Europeans					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Many more people in the world would have died of malaria for centuries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 died	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 died	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 died	aux
9	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 malaria	case
11	malaria	malaria	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 died	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 centuries	case
13	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would · perfect	Many more people in the world				century	of malaria	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of malaria=Causer

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