Exam question 1 · Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires
Identify the navigator who first attained India by circumnavigating the African continent, together with the year thereof.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, navigator · What happens: identify, attain, circumnavigate · To what, where: navigator, India, African continent
This is exam question 1 of lesson 33 «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 navigator | det |
| 3 | navigator | navigator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 attained | nsubj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 attained | advmod |
| 6 | attained | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 navigator | acl:relcl |
| 7 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 attained | obj |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 circumnavigating | mark |
| 9 | circumnavigating | circumnavigate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 attained | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 continent | det |
| 11 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 continent | amod |
| 12 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 circumnavigating | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 together | punct |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 1 Identify | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 year | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obl |
| 18 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 1 Identify | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the navigator | year | thereof, together property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent navigator=Theme | ||
| 2 | attain | past | the navigator | India | first property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent india=Theme | |||
| 3 | circumnavigate | gerund | the navigator not said here | the African continent | 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
Vasco da Gama, in 1498
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vasco | Vasco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gama | compound |
| 2 | da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gama | compound |
| 3 | Gama | Gama | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 1498 | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1498 | case |
| 6 | 1498 | 1498 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Gama | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Bartolomeu Dias, in 1488
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bartolomeu | Bartolomeu | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Dias | Dias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bartolomeu | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1488 | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1488 | case |
| 5 | 1488 | 1488 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Bartolomeu | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Christopher Columbus, in 1492
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher | Christopher | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Christopher | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1492 | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1492 | case |
| 5 | 1492 | 1492 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Christopher | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Hernán Cortés, in 1521
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hernán | Hernán | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Cortés | Cortés | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hernán | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1521 | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1521 | case |
| 5 | 1521 | 1521 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Hernán | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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