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description: If Ukraine's grain ports stayed blocked for years, what would most likely happen? Test 12 of lesson 49 «The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war» 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 12 · The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war

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If Ukraine's grain ports stayed blocked for years, what would most likely happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** block, happen · **To what, where:** grain ports

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This is test 12 of lesson 49 «The Orange Revolution, the Maidan and the war» 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/49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t12:1
# text = If Ukraine's grain ports stayed blocked for years, what would most likely happen?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **block** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | Ukraine's grain ports |  |  | year |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | likely *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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Bread and oil would cost more in many countries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t12:o1:1
# text = Bread and oil would cost more in many countries
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** | would | Bread and oil | more |  | many countries |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only Ukraine would notice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t12:o2:1
# text = Only Ukraine would notice
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | would | Ukraine |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing would change anywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t12:o3:1
# text = Nothing would change anywhere
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	_	_
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Food would get cheaper everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:49-the-orange-revolution-the-maidan-and-the-war:t12:o4:1
# text = Food would get cheaper everywhere
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Food |  |  |  |  | cheap, everywhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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