Test 11 · ★★ · Explorers and how the world was mapped

how'd sailors work out longitude at sea back then

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: 'd sailors · What happens: work out · To what, where: longitude, sea

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 'd	advmod
2	'd	'd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sailors	amod
3	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 work	compound:prt
6	longitude	longitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	obl
9	back	back	ADV	_	4 work	advmod
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work out	present	'd sailors	longitude		sea	then		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longitude=Topic

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

By counting the stars at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 counting	mark
2	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stars	det
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 counting	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 midnight	case
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 counting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		the stars			midnight		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme

Option 2

By looking at the colour of the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 looking	mark
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 colour	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 colour	det
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looking	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						at the colour of the water	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at colour=Theme

Option 3

By measuring how deep the sea was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 measuring	mark
2	measuring	measure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 deep	advmod
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 measuring	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deep	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deep	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	gerund							vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the sea					deep property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

With an accurate clock comparing local time with home time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	4 clock	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clock	det
3	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clock	amod
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	comparing	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 clock	acl
6	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comparing	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	compound
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comparing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	gerund	a accurate clock not said here				time		vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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