Test 8 · ★★★ · Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts

Which long voyage did the Canal du Midi help ships avoid?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: long voyage, Canal Midi, ships · What happens: do, help, avoid · To what, where: ships

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Canals: Suez, Panama and the shortcuts» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 did	obj
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 voyage	amod
3	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Midi	det
6	Canal	Canal	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Midi	compound
7	du	du	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Canal	flat
8	Midi	Midi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 help	nsubj
9	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 help	obj
11	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 help	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	long voyage		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
2	help	present	the Canal Midi	ships	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ship=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	avoid	infinitive	ships not said here		vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Sailing all the way round Spain and Portugal through Gibraltar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 way	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 Spain	case
6	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Portugal	cc
8	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Spain	conj
9	through	through	ADP	_	10 Gibraltar	case
10	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund		all way		Gibraltar		round Spain and Portugal	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round spain=Trajectory

Option 2

Sailing round South America through the Strait of Magellan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	round	round	ADP	_	4 America	case
3	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 America	compound
4	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 Strait	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Strait	det
7	Strait	Strait	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Magellan	case
9	Magellan	Magellan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Strait	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund				the Strait of Magellan		round South America	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round america=Trajectory

Option 3

Sailing round Britain and Ireland through the stormy North Sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	round	round	ADP	_	3 Britain	case
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Ireland	cc
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Britain	conj
6	through	through	ADP	_	10 Sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sea	det
8	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Sea	amod
9	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Sea	compound
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund				the stormy North Sea		round Britain and Ireland	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round britain=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sailing all the way round Africa past the Cape of Good Hope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 way	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 Africa	case
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl
7	past	past	ADP	_	9 Cape	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cape	det
9	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Hope	case
11	Good	Good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Hope	amod
12	Hope	Hope	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Cape	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund		all way		Africa		past the Cape of Good Hope	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round africa=Trajectory

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