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title: What would have happened to Venice's spice trade after ships sailed… — The spice trade and the Indian Ocean · tree and pragmatics
description: What would have happened to Venice's spice trade after ships sailed around Africa straight to India? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 29 «The spice trade and the Indian Ocean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 9 · ★ · The spice trade and the Indian Ocean

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What would have happened to Venice's spice trade after ships sailed around Africa straight to India?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ships, Venice · **What happens:** happen, sail, trade · **To what, where:** India, Africa

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 29 «The spice trade and the Indian Ocean» 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/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean:t9:1
# text = What would have happened to Venice's spice trade after ships sailed around Africa straight to India?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	spice	spice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | to Venice's spice trade | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sail** | past | ships |  | India | Africa |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around africa=Trajectory |
| 3 | **trade** |  | Venice |  |  |  |  |  | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, as Venice never traded spices at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean:t9:o1:1
# text = Nothing, as Venice never traded spices at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	traded	trade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **trade** | past | Nothing | spices |  | all |  | as Venice | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spice=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It faced strong new competition and declined

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean:t9:o2:1
# text = It faced strong new competition and declined
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	competition	competition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	declined	decline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | past | It | strong new competition |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme competition=Destination |
| 2 | **decline** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It became the only spice route to Europe forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean:t9:o3:1
# text = It became the only spice route to Europe forever
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	spice	spice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | It | the only spice route to Europe |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The whole city of Venice moved to India to trade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean:t9:o4:1
# text = The whole city of Venice moved to India to trade
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	trade	trade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | the whole city of Venice |  | India |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to india=Result |
| 2 | **trade** | to-infinitive | the whole city of Venice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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