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title: If Venice had been built on open farmland instead of a lagoon, what… — Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterra… · tree and pragmatics
description: If Venice had been built on open farmland instead of a lagoon, what would most likely be different? Test 4 of lesson 32 «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 4 · Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean

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If Venice had been built on open farmland instead of a lagoon, what would most likely be different?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lagoon · **What happens:** build, be · **To what, where:** Venice, open farmland

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This is test 4 of lesson 32 «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» 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/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t4:1
# text = If Venice had been built on open farmland instead of a lagoon, what would most likely be different?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	farmland	farmland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · perfect · passive |  | Venice |  | open farmland |  | instead a lagoon | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on farmland=Source |
| 2 | **is** | would | a lagoon |  |  |  |  | different, likely *property* | tree rules |

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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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Nothing, because a lagoon gives no protection to a city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t4:o1:1
# text = Nothing, because a lagoon gives no protection to a city
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Nothing | no protection | a city |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent protection=Theme to city=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would have been much richer from the spice trade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t4:o2:1
# text = It would have been much richer from the spice trade
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	spice	spice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | It |  |  | the spice trade |  | rich *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would have had more ships

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t4:o3:1
# text = It would have had more ships
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would · perfect | It | more ships |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would have been much easier for armies to attack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t4:o4:1
# text = It would have been much easier for armies to attack
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | It |  |  |  |  | for armies; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attack** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: 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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