Test 4 · The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings

If Vikings reached America about 1000, why do people say Columbus "found" it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Vikings, people, Columbus · What happens: reach, say, find · To what, where: America, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 20 «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» of the history 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 say	advcl
4	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 1000	advmod
6	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 reached	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 say	advmod
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 found	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 say	ccomp
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach a condition, not said to happen	past	Vikings	America	1000 obl	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent america=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present · do-support	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	find in a quote	past	Columbus	it		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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

The Vikings did not stay, and Native peoples were already there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Vikings	det
2	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 stay	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stay	advmod
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 peoples	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 peoples	cc
8	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 peoples	amod
9	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stay	obl
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 there	cop
11	already	already	ADV	_	12 there	advmod
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 peoples	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stay	past · do-support	the Vikings	Native peoples					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Native peoples not said here					there property	tree rules

Option 2

Columbus was a Viking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Viking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Viking	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Viking	det
4	Viking	viking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Columbus	a Viking					tree rules

Option 3

The Vikings never went at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Vikings	det
2	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past	the Vikings			all			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 4

America was empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 empty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 empty	cop
3	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	America					empty property	tree rules

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