Test 10 · Europe: countries and capitals

Why did Portugal look to the ocean rather than to land to grow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Portugal · What happens: look, land, grow

This is test 10 of lesson 7 «Europe: countries and capitals» 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=Int	4 look	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ocean	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ocean	det
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
8	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	11 land	cc
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 rather	fixed
10	to	to	PART	_	11 land	mark
11	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 look	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 grow	mark
13	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 land	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	Portugal	to the ocean	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ocean=Theme
2	land	to-infinitive	Portugal not said here		tree rules
3	grow	to-infinitive	Portugal not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «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.

The options

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

Its only land neighbour was the stronger Castile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 neighbour	nmod:poss
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 neighbour	amod
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 neighbour	compound
4	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Castile	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Castile	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Castile	det
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 Castile	amod
8	Castile	Castile	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Its only land neighbour	the stronger Castile					tree rules

Option 2

It had no ports

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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 ports	det
4	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	no ports					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Patient

Option 3

Portugal had no army at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 army	det
4	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Portugal	no army		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient

Option 4

The ocean was smaller then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ocean	det
2	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smaller	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smaller	cop
4	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 smaller	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ocean				then	small property	tree rules

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