Exam question 2 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the condition of the east coast of Australia at the time of Cook's landing in seventeen hundred and seventy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris, condition · To what, where: condition, east coast

This is exam question 2 of lesson 28 «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 condition	det
10	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 coast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coast	det
13	east	east	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coast	amod
14	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 condition	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Australia	case
16	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 coast	nmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 landing	case
21	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 landing	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Cook	case
23	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 time	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hundred	case
25	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 hundred	compound
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 landing	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seventy	cc
28	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 hundred	conj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the condition of the east coast of Australia	time	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	condition		the east coast of Australia			nom condition «state transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It had been inhabited by Aboriginal peoples for over fifty thousand years

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	4 inhabited	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 inhabited	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 inhabited	aux:pass
4	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 peoples	case
6	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 peoples	amod
7	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 inhabited	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
9	over	over	ADV	_	11 thousand	advmod
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 thousand	compound
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 inhabited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inhabit	past · perfect · passive	Aboriginal peoples	It			year		tree rules

Option 2

It was governed by the Māori

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	3 governed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 governed	aux:pass
3	governed	govern	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Māori	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Māori	det
6	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 governed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	govern	past · passive	the Māori	It					vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

It was uninhabited

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	3 uninhabited	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 uninhabited	cop
3	uninhabited	uninhabited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

It was a Dutch colony

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 colony	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 colony	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 colony	det
4	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 colony	amod
5	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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