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title: Ivy's game has armies always ready. What would happen in real life i… — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armie… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ivy's game has armies always ready. What would happen in real life if all soldiers left at harvest time? Test 7 of lesson 68 «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 7 · Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time

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Ivy's game has armies always ready. What would happen in real life if all soldiers left at harvest time?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** game, soldiers · **What happens:** have, happen, leave · **To what, where:** armies, real life

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This is test 7 of lesson 68 «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» 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/68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ivy's game has armies always ready.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time:t7:1
# text = Ivy's game has armies always ready.
1	Ivy	Ivy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Ivy's game | armies |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would happen in real life if all soldiers left at harvest time?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time:t7:2
# text = What would happen in real life if all soldiers left at harvest time?
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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  | real life |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location |
| 2 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | all soldiers |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Harvests would double, because soldiers are lazy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time:t7:o1:1
# text = Harvests would double, because soldiers are lazy
1	Harvests	harvest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	double	double	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **double** | would | Harvests |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | soldiers |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Armies would get much stronger and bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time:t7:o2:1
# text = Armies would get much stronger and bigger
1	Armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Crops would rot and people go hungry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time:t7:o3:1
# text = Crops would rot and people go hungry
1	Crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	rot	rot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rot** | would | Crops |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | present | people |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing at all would happen to anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time:t7:o4:1
# text = Nothing at all would happen to anyone
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  | to anyone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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