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title: What would happen to deliveries if ships kept avoiding the Red Sea? — The wars the news shows less: Sudan an… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to deliveries if ships kept avoiding the Red Sea? Test 4 of lesson 28 «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» of the politics 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 4 · The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others

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What would happen to deliveries if ships kept avoiding the Red Sea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ships · **What happens:** happen, keep, avoid · **To what, where:** Red Sea

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This is test 4 of lesson 28 «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» of the politics 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/politics/28-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:28-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others:t4:1
# text = What would happen to deliveries if ships kept avoiding the Red Sea?
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	_	5	case	_	_
5	deliveries	delivery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	avoiding	avoid	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to deliveries | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | ships |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **avoid** | gerund | ships *not said here* | the Red Sea |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent sea=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Parcels would arrive faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:28-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others:t4:o1:1
# text = Parcels would arrive faster
1	Parcels	parcel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | would | Parcels |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:28-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others:t4: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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Goods would take longer, because ships go round Africa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:28-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others:t4:o3:1
# text = Goods would take longer, because ships go round Africa
1	Goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | Goods |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | present | ships |  |  | Africa |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round africa=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ships would sail over Egypt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:28-the-wars-the-news-shows-less-sudan-and-others:t4:o4:1
# text = Ships would sail over Egypt
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | would | Ships |  |  | Egypt |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over egypt=Trajectory |

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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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