Test 1 · ★★ · Explorers and how the world was mapped
A sailor measures the Pole Star higher and higher in the sky each night. Which way is the ship sailing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sailor, ship · What happens: measure, sail · To what, where: Pole Star, sky, way
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 98 «Explorers and how the world was mapped» of the world 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
Sentence 1: A sailor measures the Pole Star higher and higher in the sky each night.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sailor | det |
| 2 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 measures | nsubj |
| 3 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Star | det |
| 5 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Star | compound |
| 6 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 measures | obj |
| 7 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 measures | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 higher | cc |
| 9 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 higher | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sky | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sky | det |
| 12 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 measures | obl |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 measures | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 measures | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | present | a sailor | the Pole Star | the sky | night | high property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme star=Value |
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.
Sentence 2: Which way is the ship sailing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sailing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sailing | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sailing | nsubj |
| 6 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present · progressive | the ship | which way | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
South
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South | south | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
West
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West | west | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
North
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
East
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East | East | PROPN | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/t1/