Test 2 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

Why were Cook's crews healthier than Magellan's?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crews · What happens: be

This is test 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 healthier	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 healthier	cop
3	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crews	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Cook	case
5	crews	crew	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 healthier	nsubj
6	healthier	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 Magellan	case
8	Magellan	Magellan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 healthier	obl
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Magellan	case
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 healthier	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Cook's crews					than Magellan; healthy property	tree rules

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 were all younger

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	4 younger	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 younger	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 younger	advmod
4	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 2

They sailed only in summer

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 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 sailed	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	They				summer		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They ate fresh food and sauerkraut against scurvy

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sauerkraut	cc
6	sauerkraut	sauerkraut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 food	conj
7	against	against	ADP	_	8 scurvy	case
8	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sauerkraut	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	They	fresh food and sauerkraut against scurvy					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4

They had modern medicine and doctors on board

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 medicine	amod
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 doctors	cc
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 medicine	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 board	case
8	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	modern medicine and doctors		board			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient

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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