Test 8 · ★★ · Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people alrea…

Why did the voyage prove the Earth was bigger than people thought?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: voyage, Earth, people · What happens: prove, be, think

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	5 prove	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prove	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 voyage	det
4	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prove	nsubj
5	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bigger	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bigger	cop
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 prove	ccomp
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 thought	mark
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 bigger	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 prove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	prove	past · do-support	the voyage		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Earth	big property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	participle	people		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

They saw the Earth from space

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Earth	det
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 space	case
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	They	the Earth		space			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer earth=Stimulus

Option 2

They measured it with a rope

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 measured	nsubj
2	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 measured	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rope	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	past	They	it				with a rope	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Pacific alone took months to cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pacific	det
2	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cross	mark
7	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Pacific				month	alone property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cross	to-infinitive	the Pacific not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The ships got smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ships	det
2	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the ships					small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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