--- title: If a village lost half its farm workers to the plague, what would ha… — The Black Death and the end of the Mid… · tree and pragmatics description: If a village lost half its farm workers to the plague, what would happen to the pay of those left? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [The Black Death and the end of the Mid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages If a village lost half its farm workers to the plague, what would happen to the pay of those left? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** village · **What happens:** lose, happen, leave, pay · **To what, where:** village, those This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t3:1 # text = If a village lost half its farm workers to the plague, what would happen to the pay of those left? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 4 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 8 det:predet _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:agent _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 plague plague NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 nsubj _ _ 14 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 18 nmod _ _ 21 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ? ? PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | participle | | a village *not said here* | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **happen** | would | a village | | | | | to the pay of those | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pay** | | | those | | | | | nom pay «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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 {#o1} It would fall to nothing ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t3:o1:1 # text = It would fall to nothing 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | would | It | | | | | to nothing | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} It would usually go up ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t3:o2:1 # text = It would usually go up 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 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** | would | It | | | | | usually *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ### Option 3 {#o3} Workers would have to pay the lord more ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t3:o3:1 # text = Workers would have to pay the lord more 1 Workers worker 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 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | would | Workers | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | Workers *not said here* | the lord | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Asset | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} It would stay exactly the same ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t3:o4:1 # text = It would stay exactly the same 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | would | It | | | | | same *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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