Test 8 · ★ · Explorers: around Africa and Columbus

Who reached the Americas long before Columbus, apart from the people living there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: reach, live · To what, where: Americas

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 reached	nsubj
2	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Americas	det
4	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 reached	obj
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 reached	advmod
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 Columbus	case
7	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 people	punct
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	12 people	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 people	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reached	obl
13	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 people	acl
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 living	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reached	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past		the Americas			before Columbus	from the people; long property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent americas=Theme from people=Source
2	live	gerund	the people not said here			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «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

Vikings, around the year 1000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 year	punct
3	around	around	ADP	_	5 year	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Vikings	appos
6	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 year	flat

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

Option 2

Nobody at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nobody	nmod

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

Option 3

The Romans, in wooden ships with oars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Romans	det
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ships	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ships	case
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ships	amod
6	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Romans	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 oars	case
8	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ships	nmod

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

Option 4

The Mongols, by horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mongols	det
2	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 horse	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 horse	case
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mongols	conj

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

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