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Test 11 · ★ · The spice trade and the Indian Ocean

Kilwa was very rich in the 1300s. What happened to it in 1505?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kilwa · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: 1300s, it, 1505

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 29 «The spice trade and the Indian Ocean» 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

Sentence 1: Kilwa was very rich in the 1300s.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kilwa	Kilwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rich	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 rich	advmod
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 1300s	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 1300s	det
7	1300s	1300	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	4 rich	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kilwa			the 1300s		rich property	tree rules

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: What happened to it in 1505?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1505	case
6	1505	1505	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 happened	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past			it	1505			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 1505=Location

The options

Option 1

It became the capital of China

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	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 capital	det
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 China	case
6	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 capital	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	It	the capital of China					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It sank into the sea

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	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	It			the sea			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It was bought by the Dutch for gold

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 bought	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bought	aux:pass
3	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Dutch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dutch	det
6	Dutch	dutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Dutch	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past · passive	the Dutch for gold	It					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was sacked by the Portuguese

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 sacked	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sacked	aux:pass
3	sacked	sack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Portuguese	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Portuguese	det
6	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sacked	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sack	past · passive	the Portuguese	It					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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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