Test 4 · Maps and scale

Why did portolan charts show coasts in great detail but leave inland areas almost empty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: portolan charts · What happens: show, leave · To what, where: coasts, inland areas

This is test 4 of lesson 1 «Maps and scale» of the geography 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 show	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 charts	aux
3	portolan	portolan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 charts	compound
4	charts	chart	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	nsubj
5	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 detail	case
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 detail	amod
9	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 leave	cc
11	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 show	conj
12	inland	inland	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 areas	amod
13	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 leave	obj
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 empty	advmod
15	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 leave	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	portolan charts	coasts				in great detail	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent coast=Patient in detail=Topic
2	leave	present	portolan charts not said here	inland areas				empty property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Sailors needed the coasts, not the land far inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coasts	det
4	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 needed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 land	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 land	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needed	obl
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 inside	advmod
10	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 needed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	Sailors	the coasts				the land obl; inside property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot coast=Theme

Option 2

The inland areas were under the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 areas	det
2	inland	inland	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 areas	amod
3	areas	area	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sea	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sea	cop
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the inland areas			the sea			tree rules

Option 3

Nobody lived inland in those days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inland	inland	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 days	det
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Nobody				day	inland property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Ink was too costly to waste on drawing the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 costly	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 costly	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 costly	advmod
4	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 waste	mark
6	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 costly	advcl
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 drawing	mark
8	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 waste	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drawing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ink		costly property	tree rules
2	waste	to-infinitive	Ink not said here			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	draw	gerund	Ink not said here	the land		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme

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