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title: Why did Denmark grow rich from a narrow strait? — Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did Denmark grow rich from a narrow strait? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the othe…

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Why did Denmark grow rich from a narrow strait?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Denmark · **What happens:** grow

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Straits: Bosporus, Gibraltar, Malacca, Hormuz and the other narrow doors» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/19-straits-the-narrow-doors/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:19-straits-the-narrow-doors:t3:1
# text = Why did Denmark grow rich from a narrow strait?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · do-support | Denmark |  |  |  |  | from a narrow strait; rich *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from strait=Patient |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The best fish in Europe only lived in the Øresund's water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:19-straits-the-narrow-doors:t3:o1:1
# text = The best fish in Europe only lived in the Øresund's water
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Øresund	Øresund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the best fish in Europe |  |  | the Øresund's water |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Denmark sold barrels of the strait's clean water to Europe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:19-straits-the-narrow-doors:t3:o2:1
# text = Denmark sold barrels of the strait's clean water to Europe
1	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past | Denmark | barrels of the strait's clean water | Europe |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme to europe=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Denmark owned nearly every merchant ship in the Baltic Sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:19-straits-the-narrow-doors:t3:o3:1
# text = Denmark owned nearly every merchant ship in the Baltic Sea
1	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	NNP	_	10	compound	_	_
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past | Denmark | every merchant ship |  | the Baltic Sea |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ship=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Every foreign ship through the Øresund had to pay a toll

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:19-straits-the-narrow-doors:t3:o4:1
# text = Every foreign ship through the Øresund had to pay a toll
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Øresund	Øresund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	toll	toll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | every foreign ship through the Øresund |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | every foreign ship through the Øresund *not said here* | a toll |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toll=Asset |

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**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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