Test 6 · ★★ · Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people alrea…

Why did Magellan think the Pacific would be a short crossing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Magellan, Pacific · What happens: think, be · To what, where: short crossing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 think	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	Magellan	Magellan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pacific	det
6	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 crossing	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 crossing	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 crossing	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 crossing	det
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 crossing	amod
11	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	Magellan						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	would	the Pacific	a short crossing					tree rules

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

He had a perfect map of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 map	det
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 map	amod
5	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 map	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a perfect map of map					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Patient

Option 2

He planned to swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 planned	nsubj
2	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 swim	mark
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 planned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	past	He						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	swim not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He thought it was a lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lake	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a lake					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody in Europe knew how huge it was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 knew	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Europe	case
3	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nobody	nmod
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 huge	advmod
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 huge	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 huge	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	it					huge 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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