Test 8 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

Why did Cook's maps bring more Europeans to New Zealand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maps · What happens: do, bring · To what, where: more Europeans, New Zealand

This is test 8 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 bring	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 maps	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Cook	case
5	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	nsubj
6	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 Europeans	amod
8	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 bring	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Zealand	case
10	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Zealand	flat
11	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Cook's maps not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	present	Cook's maps	more Europeans	New Zealand				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent european=Theme to zealand=Destination

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 showed gold on every hill

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 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 hill	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	They	gold		every hill			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gold=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Good maps made the voyage easier to plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 maps	amod
2	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 voyage	det
5	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 made	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 plan	mark
8	plan	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Good maps	the voyage				easy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product
2	plan	to-infinitive	the voyage not said here						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The maps were sold as treasure maps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maps	det
2	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sold	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sold	aux:pass
4	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 maps	case
6	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maps	compound
7	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past · passive		the maps				as treasure maps	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

The Māori sent the maps to Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Māori	det
2	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maps	det
5	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Europe	case
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the Māori	the maps	Europe				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent map=Theme to europe=Destination

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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