Test 7 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

What would Cook's crew see if they kept sailing south past the ice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crew, they · What happens: see, keep, sail · To what, where: ice

This is test 7 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 see	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
3	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crew	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Cook	case
5	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 kept	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	ccomp
10	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	south	south	ADV	_	10 sailing	advmod
12	past	past	ADP	_	14 ice	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ice	det
14	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sailing	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	see	would	Cook's crew			tree rules
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	they			tree rules
3	sail	gerund	they not said here	the ice	south property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past ice=Trajectory

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

The land of Antarctica

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 land	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Antarctica	case
4	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 land	nmod

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

Option 2

The North Pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pole	det
2	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Pole	compound
3	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Australia again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Australia	advmod

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

Option 4

A warm tropical island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 island	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 island	amod
3	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 island	amod
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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