Test 9 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

How could a small quarrel over a boat turn deadly in Hawaii?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: small quarrel · What happens: turn · To what, where: Hawaii

This is test 9 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 turn	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 turn	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 quarrel	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quarrel	amod
5	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turn	nsubj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 boat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boat	det
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quarrel	nmod
9	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 turn	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Hawaii	case
12	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 turn	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	could	a small quarrel over a boat			Hawaii		deadly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in hawaii=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

Boats were sacred weapons that only kings could touch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 weapons	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weapons	cop
3	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weapons	amod
4	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 touch	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 kings	advmod
7	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 touch	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 touch	aux
9	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 weapons	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Boats	sacred weapons					tree rules
2	touch	could	kings	sacred weapons					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Co-Theme

Option 2

Cook ordered a war over it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 war	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ordered	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	Cook	a war		war			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Theme

Option 3

It never happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not happen	past	It						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Misunderstandings between peoples could turn violent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Misunderstandings	misunderstanding	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	nsubj
2	between	between	ADP	_	3 peoples	case
3	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Misunderstandings	nmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	could	Misunderstandings between peoples					violent property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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