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title: If corn, beans and squash had never been shared with the world, what… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics
description: If corn, beans and squash had never been shared with the world, what might be missing today? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 17 «Native peoples of North America» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Native peoples of North America

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If corn, beans and squash had never been shared with the world, what might be missing today?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** world · **What happens:** not share, be · **To what, where:** corn

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 17 «Native peoples of North America» of the history 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/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t4:1
# text = If corn, beans and squash had never been shared with the world, what might be missing today?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
2	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	squash	squash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **share** | past · perfect · passive |  | corn and beans and squash |  |  |  | with the world | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | might | the world |  |  |  | today | missing *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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All the wheat that grows in Europe and Russia today

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t4:o1:1
# text = All the wheat that grows in Europe and Russia today
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | all wheat |  |  | Europe and Russia | today |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in europe=Location |

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

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Corn and other foods that now feed the world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t4:o2:1
# text = Corn and other foods that now feed the world
1	Corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	foods	food	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present |  | that |  |  | now |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient world=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Rice in China

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t4:o3:1
# text = Rice in China
1	Rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t4:o4:1
# text = Nothing at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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