Test 10 · ★★ · Latin America and the Caribbean
In 1494, who decided which European country got which lands in the Americas?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: European country · What happens: decide, get, land · To what, where: 1494, Americas · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1494 | case |
| 2 | 1494 | 1494 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 decided | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1494 | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 decided | nsubj |
| 5 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 got | obj |
| 7 | European | European | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 country | compound |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 decided | ccomp |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lands | nsubj |
| 11 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Americas | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Americas | det |
| 14 | Americas | AMERICAS | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 lands | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 decided | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | 1494 | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | past | European country | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | land | present | the Americas | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in americas=Destination |
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
Britain and France, in a treaty signed on a ship at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 France | cc |
| 3 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Britain | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 treaty | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 treaty | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 treaty | det |
| 7 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Britain | appos |
| 8 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 treaty | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 ship | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 signed | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 signed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | participle | a treaty not said here | a ship | at sea | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ship=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Spain and Portugal, in the Treaty of Tordesillas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Portugal | cc |
| 3 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Spain | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Treaty | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Treaty | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Treaty | det |
| 7 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Spain | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Tordesillas | case |
| 9 | Tordesillas | Tordesillas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Treaty | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Aztec emperor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 emperor | det |
| 2 | Aztec | Aztec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 emperor | compound |
| 3 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The people living in the Americas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 people | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Americas | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Americas | det |
| 6 | Americas | AMERICAS | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 living | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | the people not said here | the Americas | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in americas=Location |
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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