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description: If every country tried to make absolutely everything itself, what would happen? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» 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 8 · ★★ · Resources and what countries trade

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If every country tried to make absolutely everything itself, what would happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** country · **What happens:** try, make, happen · **To what, where:** everything

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Resources and what countries trade» 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/27-resources-and-what-countries-trade/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t8:1
# text = If every country tried to make absolutely everything itself, what would happen?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
9	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | every country |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | every country *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |
| 3 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Nothing would change at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t8:o1:1
# text = Nothing would change at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Everything would become much cheaper, because there would be no more transport costs at all

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t8:o2:1
# text = Everything would become much cheaper, because there would be no more transport costs at all
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
11	no	no	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	transport	transport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	csubj	_	_
14	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | Everything |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | more transport |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cost** | would |  |  |  | all; there |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Many things would be dearer or worse, as each would make things it is bad at

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t8:o3:1
# text = Many things would be dearer or worse, as each would make things it is bad at
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	dearer	dear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Many things |  |  |  |  | dear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Many things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | would | each | things |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
| 4 | **is** | present | it | things *not said here* |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Every country would grow bananas easily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:27-resources-and-what-countries-trade:t8:o4:1
# text = Every country would grow bananas easily
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | every country | bananas |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location banana=Theme |

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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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