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Test 2 · ★ · The spice trade and the Indian Ocean

My mate says the Indian Ocean was an empty sea till the Portuguese showed up. Right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Indian Ocean, Portuguese · What happens: say, be, show up · To what, where: empty sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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: My mate says the Indian Ocean was an empty sea till the Portuguese showed up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ocean	det
5	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Ocean	amod
6	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sea	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sea	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sea	det
9	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sea	amod
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 showed	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Portuguese	det
13	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 showed	nsubj
14	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sea	acl:relcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 showed	compound:prt
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the Indian Ocean	a empty sea					tree rules
3	show up	past	the Portuguese	a empty sea not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sea=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.

Sentence 2: Right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it was a busy trade world long before them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 world	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 world	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 world	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 world	det
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 world	amod
7	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 world	compound
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 world	advmod
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 world	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a busy trade world			before them = they	long property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, nobody sailed it before 1498

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 sailed	nsubj
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	obj
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 1498	case
7	1498	1498	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	nobody	it			before 1498		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

Option 3

No, but only Chinese ships ever used it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 used	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 used	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 Chinese	advmod
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ships	amod
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 used	nsubj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 used	advmod
8	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Chinese ships	it			ever		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Yes, only the Romans had ever sailed across it before them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 sailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	8 sailed	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Romans	det
5	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 sailed	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sailed	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 sailed	advmod
8	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	across	across	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sailed	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past · perfect	the Romans			it	before them = they; ever		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across it=Trajectory

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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