Test 5 · ★ · Explorers: around Africa and Columbus

If the Earth really were as small as Columbus thought, where would he have landed?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Earth, Columbus · What happens: be, think, land

This is test 5 · ★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 small	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Earth	det
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 small	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 landed	advcl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 thought	mark
9	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 small	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 landed	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 landed	advmod
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 landed	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 landed	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 landed	aux
16	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 landed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the Earth	small property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Columbus		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	land	would · perfect	Columbus		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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

In Antarctica

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Antarctica	case
2	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

In Asia, as he hoped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Asia	case
2	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hoped	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Asia	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 hoped	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hoped	nsubj
6	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	Asia			Asia			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

On the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 Moon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Moon	det
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Back in Spain the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Back	back	ADV	_	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Spain	case
3	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Back	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Back	obl:unmarked

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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