Exam question 4 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the death of James Cook.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts, James Cook · What happens: select, establish, concern, die · To what, where: response, death

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 death	det
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Cook	case
13	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Cook	compound
14	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 death	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the death of James Cook		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus death=Experiencer
4	die		James Cook			nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

He was killed in Hawaii in seventeen hundred and seventy-nine

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	3 killed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 killed	aux:pass
3	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Hawaii	case
5	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 killed	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hundred	case
7	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 killed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nine	cc
10	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 nine	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 seventy	punct
12	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · passive		He		Hawaii		in seventeen hundred	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

He died in Antarctica

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 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Antarctica	case
4	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	He					in Antarctica	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in antarctica=Attribute

Option 3

He died peacefully in London in the company of his family and friends

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 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	2 died	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 London	case
5	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 company	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 company	det
8	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 family	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 family	nmod:poss
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 company	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 friends	cc
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 family	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	He					in the company of London's family and friends; in London; peacefully property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in london=Attribute

Option 4

He perished at Botany Bay

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 perished	nsubj
2	perished	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 Bay	case
4	Botany	Botany	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Bay	compound
5	Bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 perished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perish	past	He			Botany Bay			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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