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description: If the fur trade had been worthless, what would most likely have been different? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 34 «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew

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If the fur trade had been worthless, what would most likely have been different?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fur trade · **What happens:** be

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 34 «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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/34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t3:1
# text = If the fur trade had been worthless, what would most likely have been different?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	worthless	worthless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
15	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | the fur trade |  |  |  |  | worthless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Serfdom would have ended in 1480

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t3:o1:1
# text = Serfdom would have ended in 1480
1	Serfdom	serfdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	ended	end	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1480	1480	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | would · perfect · passive |  | Serfdom |  | 1480 |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Russia would have had less reason to push across Siberia so fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t3:o2:1
# text = Russia would have had less reason to push across Siberia so fast
1	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Siberia	Siberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would · perfect | Russia | less reason |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 2 | **push** | to-infinitive | Russia *not said here* | less reason *not said here* |  | Siberia |  | fast *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent across siberia=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Russia would have reached America in 1340

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t3:o3:1
# text = Russia would have reached America in 1340
1	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1340	1340	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | would · perfect | Russia | America |  | 1340 |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent america=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Peter the Great would never have been born

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t3:o4:1
# text = Peter the Great would never have been born
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bear** | would · perfect · passive |  | Peter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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