Test 6 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

why'd cook even need a tahitian guy on the ship

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cook, need · To what, where: tahitian guy, ship

This is test 6 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	3 cook	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cook	aux
3	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cook	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 guy	det
7	tahitian	tahitian	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guy	compound
8	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ship	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	would							tree rules
2	need	present		a tahitian guy		the ship			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot guy=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 · ← Mova's choice

He was a stowaway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stowaway	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stowaway	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stowaway	det
4	stowaway	stowaway	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a stowaway					tree rules

Option 2

He did not need anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	past · do-support	He	anyone					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot anyone=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tupaia knew the Pacific and helped talk with the Māori

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tupaia	Tupaia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pacific	det
4	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 helped	cc
6	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 helped	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 Māori	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Māori	det
10	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Tupaia	the Pacific		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pacific=Stimulus
2	help	past	Tupaia not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	talk	infinitive	Tupaia not said here		with the Māori	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with māori=Co-Agent

Option 4

He was the ship's cook and made very good meals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cook	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ship	det
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cook	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 ship	case
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 He	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meals	amod
11	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He not said here	the ship's cook					tree rules
2	make	past	He	good meals					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Product

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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