Test 3 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

If Polynesians had no maps or compasses, what did their great voyages show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Polynesians, maps · What happens: have, do, show, voyage · To what, where: maps, great voyages

This is test 3 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	Polynesians	Polynesian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 show	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 maps	det
5	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 compasses	cc
7	compasses	compass	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 maps	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 maps	acl:relcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 voyages	nmod:poss
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 voyages	amod
13	voyages	voyage	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 did	obj
14	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	Polynesians	no maps or compasses	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Patient
2	do	past	no maps or compasses	Polynesians's great voyages	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Eventuality
3	show	present			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	voyage		Polynesians = polynesian		nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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

They were some of the greatest sailors in history

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	3 some	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 some	cop
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 sailors	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sailors	det
6	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sailors	amod
7	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 some	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 history	case
9	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sailors	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

They got lucky every time and never once got lost at sea

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl:unmarked
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lost	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 lost	advmod
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 lost	advmod
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	aux:pass
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 got	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 sea	case
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They	lucky			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lucky=Stimulus
2	not lose	past · passive	They not said here			sea		once property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: at sea=Eventuality

Option 3

They only sailed a few metres

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	3 sailed	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 sailed	advmod
3	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 metres	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 metres	amod
6	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sailed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	They	a few metres					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory

Option 4

Someone else steered for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 steered	nsubj
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 Someone	advmod
3	steered	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 steered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steer	past	Someone					for them = they	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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