Test 7 · ★ · Explorers: around Africa and Columbus

Why did Portugal and Spain think they could split the world on a map?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Portugal · What happens: think, split · To what, where: world, map

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 think	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Portugal	aux
3	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 think	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Spain	cc
5	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Portugal	conj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 split	advcl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 split	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 split	aux
9	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 split	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 map	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 map	det
14	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 split	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 split	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Portugal and Spain						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	split	could	Portugal	the world		a map			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Patient

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

Everyone in the world had voted for it in Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 voted	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 world	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everyone	nmod
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 voted	aux
6	voted	vote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 voted	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Rome	case
10	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 voted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote	past · perfect	Everyone			Rome		for world	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for it=Goal

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

They acted without asking the people who lived there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 acted	nsubj
2	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 asking	mark
4	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 acted	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asking	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 people	acl:relcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	act	past	They			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	They not said here	the people		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
3	live	past	the people		there	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The lands were empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lands	det
2	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 empty	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 empty	cop
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

The Pope lived in Brazil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pope	det
2	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Brazil	case
5	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the Pope			Brazil			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brazil=Location

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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