Exam question 4 · The spice trade and the Indian Ocean
It is given that Admiral Zheng He commanded seven expeditions between 1405 and 1433. Ascertain the furthest region attained by these fleets.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Admiral Zheng, you · What happens: give, command, ascertain, attain · To what, where: It, seven expeditions, furthest region · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 4 of lesson 29 «The spice trade and the Indian Ocean» of the geography 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
Sentence 1: It is given that Admiral Zheng He commanded seven expeditions between 1405 and 1433.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 commanded | mark |
| 5 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Zheng | compound |
| 6 | Zheng | Zheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 commanded | nsubj |
| 7 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Zheng | flat |
| 8 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 expeditions | nummod |
| 10 | expeditions | expedition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 commanded | obj |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 1405 | case |
| 12 | 1405 | 1405 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 commanded | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 1433 | cc |
| 14 | 1433 | 1433 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 1405 | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | command | past | Admiral Zheng | seven expeditions | between 1405 | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent expedition=Theme between 1405=Eventuality |
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.
Sentence 2: Ascertain the furthest region attained by these fleets.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 region | det |
| 3 | furthest | furth | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 region | amod |
| 4 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 5 | attained | attain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 region | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 fleets | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 fleets | det |
| 8 | fleets | fleet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 attained | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the furthest region | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Topic | ||||
| 2 | attain | participle | the furthest region not said here | by this fleets | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Western Europe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Europe | amod |
| 2 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Antarctica's coast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 coast | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Antarctica | case |
| 3 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Americas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Americas | det |
| 2 | Americas | AMERICAS | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
East Africa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 East | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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