Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Geography / The spice trade and the Indian Ocean / t3

Test 3 · ★ · The spice trade and the Indian Ocean

In the game, a trade company is a handy mechanic. What did the real companies become?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: trade company, real companies · What happens: be, become · To what, where: handy mechanic, game

This is test 3 · ★ 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: In the game, a trade company is a handy mechanic.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mechanic	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 game	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 company	det
6	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 company	compound
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mechanic	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 mechanic	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mechanic	det
10	handy	handy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mechanic	amod
11	mechanic	mechanic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 mechanic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a trade company	a handy mechanic		the game			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 did the real companies become?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 become	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 become	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 companies	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 companies	amod
5	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 become	nsubj
6	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 become	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · do-support	the real companies						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient what=Result

The options

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

Armed powers, and the English one later ruled much of India

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 powers	amod
2	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ruled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ruled	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ruled	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 later	obl:unmarked
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 ruled	advmod
9	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ruled	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 India	case
12	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 much	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	Armed powers	much of India				late property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme

Option 2

Small shops selling tea and coffee to the people of London

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shops	amod
2	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 selling	nsubj
3	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 selling	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 coffee	cc
6	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tea	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 people	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 selling	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 London	case
11	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund	Small shops	tea and coffee	the people of London				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tea=Theme to people=Recipient

Option 3

Charities sending food to hungry people in Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charities	charity	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Charities	acl
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sending	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sending	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Asia	case
8	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund	Charities not said here	food	hungry people in Asia				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to people=Destination

Option 4

Clubs for retired sailors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 sailors	case
3	retired	retired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sailors	amod
4	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clubs	nmod

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

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/29-the-spice-trade-and-the-indian-ocean/t3/