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title: What would happen to a country if its rulers fought each other for d… — Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the M… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a country if its rulers fought each other for decades? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 42 «Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols» 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 8 · ★ · Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols

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What would happen to a country if its rulers fought each other for decades?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** rulers · **What happens:** happen, fight · **To what, where:** each

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 42 «Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols» 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/42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols:t8:1
# text = What would happen to a country if its rulers fought each other for decades?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	10	obj	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a country | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | country's rulers | each |  |  | decade |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Enemies would be too scared to come

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols:t8:o1:1
# text = Enemies would be too scared to come
1	Enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Enemies |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | Enemies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols:t8:o2:1
# 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 |

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

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It would grow weaker and easier for enemies to attack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols:t8:o3:1
# text = It would grow weaker and easier for enemies to attack
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	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | It |  |  |  |  | for enemies; weak *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **attack** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would grow stronger every year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:42-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols:t8:o4:1
# text = It would grow stronger every year
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	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | It |  |  |  | year | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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