Test 4 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

Why did Cook carry artists as well as sailors?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cook · What happens: carry · To what, where: artists

This is test 4 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	4 carry	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
3	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 carry	nsubj
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	4 carry	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 sailors	case
9	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · do-support	Cook	artists				as sailors	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent artist=Theme

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

To paint the ship each week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 paint	mark
2	paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ship	det
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paint	obj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paint	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	to-infinitive		the ship			week		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ship=Destination

Option 2

Cameras were too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 heavy	advmod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To draw the plants, animals and places they found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 draw	mark
2	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plants	det
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 draw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 animals	punct
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plants	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 places	cc
8	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 plants	conj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 places	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	to-infinitive		the plants and animals and places					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme
2	find	past	plants = plant	places not said here					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic

Option 4

To make the captain's portrait every single day of the voyage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 captain	det
4	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 portrait	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 captain	case
6	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl:unmarked
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 voyage	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 voyage	det
12	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the captain's portrait			day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset portrait=Product
2	portray		the captain						nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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