Test 10 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific
In a game your explorer gets a bonus for 'finding' Tasmania in 1642. Who should get the real credit for knowing it first?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: explorer, bonus · What happens: get, find, know · To what, where: bonus, game, Tasmania, 1642, real credit, credit
This is test 10 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: In a game your explorer gets a bonus for 'finding' Tasmania in 1642.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 game | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | obl |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 explorer | nmod:poss |
| 5 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bonus | det |
| 8 | bonus | bonus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | obj |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 finding | mark |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 finding | punct |
| 11 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 bonus | acl |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tasmania | punct |
| 13 | Tasmania | Tasmania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 finding | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 1642 | case |
| 15 | 1642 | 1642 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 finding | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | your explorer | a bonus | a game | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bonus=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | find | gerund | a bonus not said here | Tasmania | 1642 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tasmania=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: Who should get the real credit for knowing it first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 credit | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 credit | amod |
| 6 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 knowing | mark |
| 8 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 get | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knowing | obj |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 knowing | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | should | the real credit | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer credit=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | know | gerund | credit | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Nobody, it was empty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 empty | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 empty | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 empty | cop |
| 5 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Nobody | empty property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Aboriginal people of Tasmania
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | Aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Tasmania | case |
| 5 | Tasmania | Tasmania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 people | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Captain Cook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cook | compound |
| 2 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Abel Tasman alone, with his crew of Dutch sailors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abel | Abel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tasman | compound |
| 2 | Tasman | Tasman | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 Tasman | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 crew | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 crew | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 crew | nmod:poss |
| 7 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tasman | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sailors | case |
| 9 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sailors | amod |
| 10 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crew | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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