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title: What would Luther's ideas have done without the printing press? — Printing, the Renaissance and the Refo… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would Luther's ideas have done without the printing press? Test 5 of lesson 25 «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» 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 5 · Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation

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What would Luther's ideas have done without the printing press?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** ideas

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This is test 5 of lesson 25 «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» 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/25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation:t5:1
# text = What would Luther's ideas have done without the printing press?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	Luther	Luther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	printing	printing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | would · perfect · passive |  | Luther's ideas |  |  |  | without the printing press | 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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Spread even faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation:t5:o1:1
# text = Spread even faster
1	Spread	spread	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Stopped the Renaissance from ever happening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation:t5:o2:1
# text = Stopped the Renaissance from ever happening
1	Stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Renaissance	Renaissance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past |  | the Renaissance |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality renaissance=Eventuality |
| 2 | **happen** | gerund |  |  |  |  | ever |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Spread far more slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation:t5:o3:1
# text = Spread far more slowly
1	Spread	spread	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Turned into Latin by magic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation:t5:o4:1
# text = Turned into Latin by magic
1	Turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	into	into	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | participle |  |  |  | Latin |  | by magic | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into latin=Source by magic=Trajectory |

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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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