Test 3 · ★★ · Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»

What would happen to phones and games consoles if Taiwan's chip factories stopped?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: chip factories · What happens: happen, stop

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» 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 phones	case
5	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 consoles	cc
7	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 consoles	compound
8	consoles	console	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 phones	conj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 stopped	mark
10	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 factories	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Taiwan	case
12	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 factories	compound
13	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stopped	nsubj
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to phones and games consoles	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	participle	Taiwan's chip factories						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Making them would get much harder, because Taiwan makes most advanced chips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 get	csubj
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Making	obj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 harder	advmod
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 makes	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 makes	mark
9	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 makes	nsubj
10	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	advcl
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 advanced	advmod
12	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chips	amod
13	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		them = they		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
2	get	would	Making		hard property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	present	Taiwan	advanced chips		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Product

Option 2

Nothing, because chips come from the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 come	mark
4	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	chips			the Moon			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from moon=Initial_Location

Option 3

Phones would work better than before, because the chips from other places are faster and cheaper

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 work	aux
3	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 work	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 before	case
6	before	before	ADV	_	4 better	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 faster	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 faster	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chips	det
10	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 faster	nsubj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 places	case
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 places	amod
13	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chips	nmod
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 faster	cop
15	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 work	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cheaper	cc
17	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 faster	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	work	would	Phones	well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the chips from other places	fast property	tree rules
3	be		the chips from other places not said here		tree rules

Option 4

Only phones sold in Taiwan would stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 phones	advmod
2	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stop	nsubj
3	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 phones	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Taiwan	case
5	Taiwan	Taiwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obl
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stop	aux
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	participle		phones not said here		Taiwan			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	stop	would	phones						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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