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title: Your friend thinks the Mediterranean was the centre of world trade f… — Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterra… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your friend thinks the Mediterranean was the centre of world trade forever. What changed after 1500? Test 7 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 c
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# Test 7 · Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean

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Your friend thinks the Mediterranean was the centre of world trade forever. What changed after 1500?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** friend, Mediterranean · **What happens:** think, be, change · **To what, where:** centre · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your friend thinks the Mediterranean was the centre of world trade forever.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t7:1
# text = Your friend thinks the Mediterranean was the centre of world trade forever.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Your friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Mediterranean | the centre |  |  |  | of world trade | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What changed after 1500?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t7:2
# text = What changed after 1500?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past |  |  |  |  | after 1500 |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It dried up and could no longer be sailed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t7:o1:1
# text = It dried up and could no longer be sailed
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dried	dry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry up** | past | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **sail** | could · passive |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V» |

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

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Ocean routes grew and it slowly became less central

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t7:o2:1
# text = Ocean routes grew and it slowly became less central
1	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	routes	route	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Ocean routes |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | it |  |  |  |  | central, slowly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing ever changed there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t7:o3:1
# text = Nothing ever changed there
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ships were banned from it by the Pope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t7:o4:1
# text = Ships were banned from it by the Pope
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Pope	Pope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | past · passive | the Pope | Ships |  | it |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer subject=Beneficiary from it=Eventuality |

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