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Test 9 · Continents and oceans

In EU5 you send Portugal down the African coast. How long did the real Portuguese take to reach the Cape of Good Hope?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, real Portuguese · What happens: send, do, take, reach · To what, where: Portugal, EU5, Cape

This is test 9 of lesson 5 «Continents and oceans» 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 you send Portugal down the African coast.

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	4 send	obl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 send	nsubj
4	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 send	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	9 coast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coast	det
8	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 coast	amod
9	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	you	Portugal		EU5		down the African coast	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent portugal=Theme in eu5=Destination

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: How long did the real Portuguese take to reach the Cape of Good Hope?

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	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Portuguese	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Portuguese	amod
6	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 reach	mark
9	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Cape	det
11	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Hope	case
13	Good	Good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Hope	amod
14	Hope	Hope	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Cape	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						long property	tree rules
2	take	present	the real Portuguese						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	reach	to-infinitive	the real Portuguese not said here	the Cape of Good Hope					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cape=Theme

The options

Option 1

A single summer in 1337

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 summer	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 summer	amod
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1337	case
5	1337	1337	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 summer	nmod

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

Option 2

Just one voyage in 1600

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 voyage	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 voyage	nummod
3	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1600	case
5	1600	1600	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 voyage	nmod

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

Option 3

It was never reached

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	4 reached	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 reached	advmod
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	past · passive		It					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Decades of voyages, until Dias rounded it in 1488

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rounded	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 voyages	case
3	voyages	voyage	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Decades	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rounded	punct
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 rounded	mark
6	Dias	Dias	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rounded	nsubj
7	rounded	round	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rounded	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1488	case
10	1488	1488	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 rounded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	round	past	Decades of voyages	it		1488			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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