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title: If storms had not hit the Mongol fleets, what might have changed? — China: the Song and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics
description: If storms had not hit the Mongol fleets, what might have changed? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 55 «China: the Song 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 right.
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# Test 7 · ★★ · China: the Song and the Mongols

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If storms had not hit the Mongol fleets, what might have changed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** storms · **What happens:** not hit, change · **To what, where:** Mongol fleets

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 55 «China: the Song 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/55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols:t7:1
# text = If storms had not hit the Mongol fleets, what might have changed?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Mongol	Mongol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fleets	fleet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hit** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | storms | the Mongol fleets |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fleet=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **change** | might · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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The invasions of Japan might have gone differently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols:t7:o1:1
# text = The invasions of Japan might have gone differently
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	invasions	invasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | might · perfect | the invasions of Japan |  |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **invade** |  |  | Japan |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing could change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols:t7:o2:1
# text = Nothing could change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	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** | could | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Gunpowder would vanish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols:t7:o3:1
# text = Gunpowder would vanish
1	Gunpowder	gunpowder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Song would rule Japan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:55-china-the-song-and-the-mongols:t7:o4:1
# text = The Song would rule Japan
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Song	Song	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | would | the Song | Japan |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent japan=Result |

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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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