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title: Why would a new sea route to India make Portugal rich? — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would a new sea route to India make Portugal rich? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 26 «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» 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 9 · ★ · Explorers: around Africa and Columbus

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Why would a new sea route to India make Portugal rich?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** new sea route · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** Portugal

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 26 «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» 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/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t9:1
# text = Why would a new sea route to India make Portugal rich?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | a new sea route to India | Portugal |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset portugal=Product |

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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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India paid Portugal to visit with gold every year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t9:o1:1
# text = India paid Portugal to visit with gold every year
1	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	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 | **pay** | past | India | Portugal |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portugal=Asset |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | India *not said here* |  |  |  | year | with gold | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gold=Co-Agent |

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

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It could buy spices directly and sell them in Europe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t9:o2:1
# text = It could buy spices directly and sell them in Europe
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | could | It | spices |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spice=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** | infinitive |  | spices *= spice* |  | Europe |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Spices were free in Portugal for everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t9:o3:1
# text = Spices were free in Portugal for everyone
1	Spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Spices |  |  | Portugal |  | for everyone; free *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ships could carry gold mines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t9:o4:1
# text = Ships could carry gold mines
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | could | Ships | gold mines |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mine=Theme |

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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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