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description: If Tim Berners-Lee had charged money for every website, what would probably have happened? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 36 «Computers and the internet» 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 right.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Computers and the internet

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If Tim Berners-Lee had charged money for every website, what would probably have happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** website · **What happens:** charge, happen · **To what, where:** Tim

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 36 «Computers and the internet» 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/36-computers-and-the-internet/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:t4:1
# text = If Tim Berners-Lee had charged money for every website, what would probably have happened?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	Tim	Tim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Berners	Berners	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	website	website	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
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	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | past · perfect · passive |  | Tim |  |  |  | for every website | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient money=Asset |
| 2 | **happen** | would · perfect | every website |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Far fewer people would have made websites

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:t4:o1:1
# text = Far fewer people would have made websites
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	websites	website	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | fewer people | made websites |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent website=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Everyone would have used the web a lot more than they do today

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:t4:o2:1
# text = Everyone would have used the web a lot more than they do today
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | would · perfect · passive |  | Everyone |  |  |  | a lot *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | they |  |  |  | today |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The internet would go faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:t4:o3:1
# text = The internet would go faster
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | the internet |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:t4:o4:1
# text = Nothing would change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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