Test 10 · ★ · Explorers: around Africa and Columbus
How long did Columbus sail from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean in 1492?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Columbus sail, Canary Islands
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 26 «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» 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 | 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 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sail | compound |
| 5 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Islands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Islands | det |
| 8 | Canary | Canary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Islands | compound |
| 9 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 sail | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Caribbean | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Caribbean | det |
| 12 | Caribbean | Caribbean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1492 | case |
| 14 | 1492 | 1492 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 did | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Columbus sail | the Canary Islands | to the Caribbean; in 1492; long property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Eventuality |
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
About five weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 five | advmod |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About five days only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 five | advmod |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 days | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About five short hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 five | advmod |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hours | nummod |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hours | amod |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About five years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 five | advmod |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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