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title: If American peoples had lived for centuries with smallpox, what woul… — The people who were already there: wha… · tree and pragmatics
description: If American peoples had lived for centuries with smallpox, what would most likely have been different? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 36 «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 3 · ★★ · The people who were already there: what colonisation did

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If American peoples had lived for centuries with smallpox, what would most likely have been different?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** American peoples, smallpox · **What happens:** live, be

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 36 «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» 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/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t3:1
# text = If American peoples had lived for centuries with smallpox, what would most likely have been different?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past · perfect | American peoples |  |  |  | century | with smallpox | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with smallpox=Location |
| 2 | **is** | would · perfect | smallpox |  |  |  |  | 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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Columbus would have turned back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t3:o1:1
# text = Columbus would have turned back
1	Columbus	Columbus	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	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | would · perfect | Columbus |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing at all would have changed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t3:o2:1
# text = Nothing at all would have changed
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Far fewer would have died after 1492

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t3:o3:1
# text = Far fewer would have died after 1492
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | would · perfect | fewer |  |  |  | after 1492 |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Europeans would have caught smallpox instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t3:o4:1
# text = Europeans would have caught smallpox instead
1	Europeans	european	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | Europeans | caught smallpox |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smallpox=Patient |
| 2 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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