--- title: What would happen to sailing ships if the trade winds stopped blowing? — Winds, monsoons and ocean currents · tree and pragmatics description: What would happen to sailing ships if the trade winds stopped blowing? Test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 22 «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Winds, monsoons and ocean currents](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★★★ · Winds, monsoons and ocean currents What would happen to sailing ships if the trade winds stopped blowing? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** trade winds · **What happens:** happen, sail, stop, blow This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 22 «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» 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/22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents:t7:1 # text = What would happen to sailing ships if the trade winds stopped blowing? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 sailing sail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 6 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 blowing blow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | would | | | | | | to sailing ships | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sail** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the trade winds | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **blow** | gerund | the trade winds *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | 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 {#o1} The Gulf Stream would turn cold at once and stop ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents:t7:o1:1 # text = The Gulf Stream would turn cold at once and stop 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Gulf Gulf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Stream Stream PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | would | the Gulf Stream | | | | | cold *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | | 2 | **stop** | infinitive | the Gulf Stream *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Ships would sail much faster westwards across the ocean ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents:t7:o2:1 # text = Ships would sail much faster westwards across the ocean 1 Ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 sail sail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 much much ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 6 westwards westwards ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 across across ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sail** | would | Ships | | | the ocean | | westwards *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across ocean=Trajectory | ### Option 3 {#o3} The monsoon would blow all year round instead ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents:t7:o3:1 # text = The monsoon would blow all year round instead 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 monsoon monsoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 round round ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 instead instead ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blow** | would | the monsoon | | | | year | instead, round *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Crossing the tropical Atlantic would take far longer ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:22-winds-monsoons-and-ocean-currents:t7:o4:1 # text = Crossing the tropical Atlantic would take far longer 1 Crossing cross VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Atlantic Atlantic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 8 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | gerund | | the tropical Atlantic | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atlantic=Patient | | 2 | **take** | would | Crossing | | | | | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | **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. 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