Test 4 · ★★ · Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries

What would happen if the UK stopped all trade with other countries?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: UK, all · What happens: happen, stop, trade

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 37 «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries» of the money 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	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 stopped	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 UK	det
6	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	nsubj
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 trade	nsubj
9	trade	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stopped	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 countries	case
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 countries	amod
12	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trade	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	the UK		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	trade	present	all	with other countries	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with country=Co-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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Prices would fall because there's less choice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 's	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 's	expl
6	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	ccomp
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 choice	amod
8	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 's	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	Prices						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	be	present	less choice			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Many things, like bananas, would vanish or cost far more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 vanish	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bananas	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 bananas	case
5	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 things	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 things	punct
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 vanish	aux
8	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 cost	cc
10	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 vanish	conj
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	Many things and bananas						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cost	infinitive	Many things and bananas not said here	more					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value

Option 3

Bananas would start growing in British gardens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 gardens	case
6	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gardens	amod
7	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	Bananas						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	Bananas not said here			British gardens			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location

Option 4

Nothing, the UK makes everything it needs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 makes	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 UK	det
4	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 makes	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 needs	nsubj
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Nothing	everything					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material everything=Product
2	need	present	UK						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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