Test 12 · ★★★ · Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes

If the Red Cross openly took one side in a war, what would most likely happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Red Cross, war · What happens: take, happen · To what, where: one side, war

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 took	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cross	det
3	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Cross	flat
4	Cross	Cross	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
5	openly	openly	ADV	_	6 took	advmod
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 side	nummod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 war	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 war	det
11	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happen	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 likely	advmod
16	likely	likely	ADV	_	17 happen	advmod
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 war	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Red Cross	one side		a war		openly property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent side=Value in war=Location
2	happen	would	a war					likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

The other side might stop letting it in to help people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 side	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 side	amod
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 letting	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	6 letting	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 help	mark
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 letting	advcl
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	stop	might	the other side			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	let in	gerund	the other side not said here	side		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	help	to-infinitive	the other side not said here		people	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Both sides would let it in more often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sides	det
2	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 let	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	4 let	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in	would	both sides	it				often property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

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 4

It would win the war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 win	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 win	aux
3	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 war	det
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	would	It	the war					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality

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