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# Test 12 · ★★★ · Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes

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If the Red Cross openly took one side in a war, what would most likely happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Red Cross, war · **What happens:** take, happen · **To what, where:** one side, war

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This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Refugees, aid and sanctions: how the world helps and pushes» 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/30-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:30-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes:t12:1
# text = If the Red Cross openly took one side in a war, what would most likely happen?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
4	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	openly	openly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Red Cross | one side |  | a war |  | openly *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent side=Value in war=Location |
| 2 | **happen** | would | a war |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The other side might stop letting it in to help people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:30-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes:t12:o1:1
# text = The other side might stop letting it in to help people
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | might | the other side |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **let in** | gerund | the other side *not said here* | side |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | the other side *not said here* |  | people |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Both sides would let it in more often

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:30-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes:t12:o2:1
# text = Both sides would let it in more often
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let in** | would | both sides | it |  |  |  | often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing at all would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:30-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes:t12:o3:1
# text = Nothing at all would change
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	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 4 {#o4}

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It would win the war

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:30-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes:t12:o4:1
# text = It would win the war
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | would | It | the war |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality |

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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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