Test 2 · Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires
In EU5 a Portuguese explorer quickly maps the route round Africa. How long did it really take?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: take
This is test 2 of lesson 33 «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» 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 EU5 a Portuguese explorer quickly maps the route round Africa.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 EU5 | case |
| 2 | EU5 | EU5 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 maps | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 explorer | det |
| 4 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 explorer | amod |
| 5 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 maps | compound |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 explorer | advmod |
| 7 | maps | map | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 route | det |
| 9 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 maps | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 Africa | case |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 route | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 maps | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: How long did it really take?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 take | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 take | advmod |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · do-support | it | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About three hundred years, from 1200 to 1500
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | compound |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 1200 | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 1200 | case |
| 7 | 1200 | 1200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 years | appos |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 1500 | case |
| 9 | 1500 | 1500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 1200 | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 week | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 week | det |
| 3 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Decades, from the 1410s to 1498
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1410s | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 1410s | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 1410s | det |
| 5 | 1410s | 1410 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 1 Decades | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 1498 | case |
| 7 | 1498 | 1498 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 1410s | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
One summer in 1337
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 summer | nummod |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 1337 | case |
| 4 | 1337 | 1337 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 summer | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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