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description: If Magellan's sailors had had lots of lemons on board, what would probably have changed? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people alrea…

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If Magellan's sailors had had lots of lemons on board, what would probably have changed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sailors, lots · **What happens:** have, change

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» 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/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there:t3:1
# text = If Magellan's sailors had had lots of lemons on board, what would probably have changed?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	Magellan	Magellan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · perfect | Magellan's sailors |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | would · perfect | lots of lemons on board |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Far fewer would have died of scurvy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there:t3:o1:1
# text = Far fewer would have died of scurvy
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	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | would · perfect | fewer |  |  |  |  | of scurvy | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of scurvy=Causer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They would have sailed backwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there:t3:o2:1
# text = They would have sailed backwards
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | would · perfect | They |  |  |  |  | backwards *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there:t3:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They would have reached Asia in a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there:t3:o4:1
# text = They would have reached Asia in a day
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | would · perfect | They | Asia |  |  | day |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent asia=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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