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title: In EU4 trade just flows between nodes on the map. In real life, how… — Trade: why people swap, and the great… · tree and pragmatics
description: In EU4 trade just flows between nodes on the map. In real life, how do most goods move today? Test 9 of lesson 70 «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 9 · Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes

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In EU4 trade just flows between nodes on the map. In real life, how do most goods move today?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** most goods · **What happens:** flow, move · **To what, where:** EU4 trade, real life

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This is test 9 of lesson 70 «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In EU4 trade just flows between nodes on the map.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:t9:1
# text = In EU4 trade just flows between nodes on the map.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	EU4	EU4	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nodes	node	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | present |  |  |  | EU4 trade |  | between nodes on the map | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trade=Location |

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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:* In real life, how do most goods move today?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:t9:2
# text = In real life, how do most goods move today?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	nsubj	_	_
9	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present · do-support | most goods |  |  | real life | today |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in life=Trajectory |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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In standard containers on huge ships

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:t9:o1:1
# text = In standard containers on huge ships
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	standard	standard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	containers	container	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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In the pockets of travellers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:t9:o2:1
# text = In the pockets of travellers
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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On camels across the great deserts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:t9:o3:1
# text = On camels across the great deserts
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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In planes only, because they're fastest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:t9:o4:1
# text = In planes only, because they're fastest
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	planes	plane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | planes *= plane* |  |  | planes |  | fast *property* | tree rules |

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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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