Test 6 · ★ · The spice trade and the Indian Ocean

Why was Malacca a perfect place for a port?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Malacca

This is test 6 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Malacca	cop
3	Malacca	Malacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Why	conj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 port	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 port	det
9	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Malacca					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.

The options

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

Every ship between India and China passed through its strait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	nsubj
3	between	between	ADP	_	4 India	case
4	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ship	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 China	cc
6	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 India	conj
7	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 strait	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 strait	nmod:poss
10	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	every ship between India and China			ship's strait			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through strait=Location

Option 2

It lay in the middle of a desert

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 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 desert	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 desert	det
8	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	It			the middle of a desert			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location

Option 3

It was far from every trade route, so it was safe from pirates

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	7 route	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 route	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 route	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 route	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 route	det
6	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 route	compound
7	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 safe	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 safe	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 safe	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	cop
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 route	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 pirates	case
14	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 safe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It			every trade route		far property	tree rules
2	is	past	route			pirates		safe property	tree rules

Option 4

It had the coldest and cleanest water in the whole of Asia

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
4	coldest	cold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 water	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cleanest	cc
6	cleanest	clean	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 coldest	conj
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 Asia	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Asia	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Asia	amod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Asia	case
12	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	the coldest water		the whole Asia			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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