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Test 1 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

Lucy says Cook discovered New Zealand. What would a Māori historian say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lucy, Cook, Māori historian · What happens: say, discover · To what, where: New Zealand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 28 «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» 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: Lucy says Cook discovered New Zealand.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 discovered	nsubj
4	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Zealand	flat
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 discovered	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lucy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	discover	past	Cook	New Zealand					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zealand=Topic

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 would a Māori historian say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 historian	det
4	Māori	māori	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 historian	amod
5	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a Māori historian						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Nobody lived there before Cook came in 1769

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lived	advmod
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1769	case
8	1769	1769	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Nobody			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Cook			1769			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1769=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Our ancestors arrived about 700 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ancestors	nmod:poss
2	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 700	advmod
5	700	700	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ago	obl:unmarked
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 arrived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	Our ancestors					ago property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Tasman was the first person there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tasman	Tasman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 person	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 person	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Tasman	the first person		there			tree rules

Option 4

Thank you for finding it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Thank	obj
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 finding	mark
4	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Thank	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	find	gerund		it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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