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Test 10 · ★★ · Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people alrea…

A map has a sea monster drawn in the middle of an ocean. What does it most likely mean?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: map · What happens: have, draw, mean · To what, where: sea monster, middle

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there» 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

Sentence 1: A map has a sea monster drawn in the middle of an ocean.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 map	det
2	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 monster	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 monster	compound
6	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 monster	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ocean	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ocean	det
13	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 middle	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a map	a sea monster					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Patient
2	draw	participle		a sea monster not said here		the middle of a ocean			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in middle=Destination

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.

Sentence 2: What does it most likely mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mean	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 mean	advmod
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	map					likely property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

It was a famous restaurant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 restaurant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 restaurant	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 restaurant	det
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 restaurant	amod
5	restaurant	restaurant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

There was an island shaped like a monster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 island	det
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 island	acl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 monster	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 monster	det
8	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a island			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shape	participle		a island not said here				like a monster	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

A real monster lived there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 monster	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 monster	amod
3	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a real monster			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The mapmaker did not know what was there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mapmaker	det
2	mapmaker	mapmaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 there	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the mapmaker						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past						there property	tree rules

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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