Exam question 4 · The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finc…
State the year in which Charles Darwin visited the Galápagos Islands and the vessel upon which he travelled.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Charles · What happens: visit, travel · To what, where: Galápagos Islands, vessel
This is exam question 4 of lesson 180 «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | nmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 visited | obl |
| 6 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 visited | nsubj |
| 7 | Darwin | Darwin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Charles | flat |
| 8 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 year | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Islands | det |
| 10 | Galápagos | Galápagos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Islands | compound |
| 11 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 visited | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vessel | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vessel | det |
| 14 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Islands | conj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 travelled | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 travelled | nsubj |
| 18 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 vessel | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | Charles | the Galápagos Islands and the vessel | in the year | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | travel | past | Charles | the vessel | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Trajectory |
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
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
1492, aboard the Santa María
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1492 | 1492 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Santa | punct |
| 3 | aboard | aboard | ADP | _ | 5 Santa | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Santa | det |
| 5 | Santa | Santa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 1492 | appos |
| 6 | María | María | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Santa | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
1835, aboard the Beagle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1835 | 1835 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Beagle | punct |
| 3 | aboard | aboard | ADP | _ | 5 Beagle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Beagle | det |
| 5 | Beagle | Beagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 1835 | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1901, aboard the Discovery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1901 | 1901 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Discovery | punct |
| 3 | aboard | aboard | ADP | _ | 5 Discovery | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Discovery | det |
| 5 | Discovery | Discovery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 1901 | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1859, aboard the Endeavour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1859 | 1859 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Endeavour | punct |
| 3 | aboard | aboard | ADP | _ | 5 Endeavour | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Endeavour | det |
| 5 | Endeavour | endeavour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 1859 | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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