Test 8 · Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires
A ship leaves Acapulco loaded with silver and comes back with silk and porcelain. What is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ship, Acapulco · What happens: leave, load, come back, be
This is test 8 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: A ship leaves Acapulco loaded with silver and comes back with silk and porcelain.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Acapulco | Acapulco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 loaded | nsubj |
| 5 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaves | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 silver | case |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loaded | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 comes | cc |
| 9 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaves | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 comes | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 silk | case |
| 12 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 porcelain | cc |
| 14 | porcelain | porcelain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 silk | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | a ship | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | load | past | Acapulco | with silver | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come back | present | a ship not said here | with silk and porcelain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: What is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ship | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A caravel of Henry the Navigator
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 caravel | det |
| 2 | caravel | caravel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Henry | case |
| 4 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 caravel | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Navigator | det |
| 6 | Navigator | Navigator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Henry | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A Viking longship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 longship | det |
| 2 | Viking | viking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 longship | compound |
| 3 | longship | longship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A Manila galleon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 galleon | det |
| 2 | Manila | Manila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 galleon | compound |
| 3 | galleon | galleon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A Venetian galley
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 galley | det |
| 2 | Venetian | venetian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 galley | amod |
| 3 | galley | galley | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
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