Test 4 · The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others

What would happen to deliveries if ships kept avoiding the Red Sea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ships · What happens: happen, keep, avoid · To what, where: Red Sea

This is test 4 of lesson 28 «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» of the politics 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	to	to	ADP	_	5 deliveries	case
5	deliveries	delivery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 kept	mark
7	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	avoiding	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sea	det
11	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Sea	compound
12	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 avoiding	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to deliveries	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	ships			tree rules
3	avoid	gerund	ships not said here	the Red Sea		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent sea=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Parcels would arrive faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parcels	parcel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 arrive	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 arrive	aux
3	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 arrive	advmod

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

Option 2

Nothing would change

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

#	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 3 · ✓ the right answer

Goods would take longer, because ships go round Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 take	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 take	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 go	mark
7	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 take	conj
9	round	round	ADP	_	10 Africa	case
10	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	Goods					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	present	ships			Africa			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round africa=Initial_Location

Option 4

Ships would sail over Egypt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sail	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sail	aux
3	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 Egypt	case
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sail	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	would	Ships			Egypt			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over egypt=Trajectory

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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