Test 3 · ★★ · Explorers and how the world was mapped
Which explorer's journey happened first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: journey, explorer · What happens: happen, journey
This is test 3 · ★★ 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 explorer | det |
| 2 | explorer | explorer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 journey | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 explorer | case |
| 4 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 happened | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | which explorer's journey | first property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | journey | which explorer | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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
Leif Erikson's voyage to North America
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leif | Leif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Erikson | Erikson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Leif | flat |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Leif | case |
| 4 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 America | case |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 America | compound |
| 7 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 voyage | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | voyage | Leif | to North America | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
Option 2
Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Columbus | Columbus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 voyage | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Columbus | case |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 voyage | amod |
| 4 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Caribbean | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Caribbean | det |
| 7 | Caribbean | Caribbean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 voyage | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | voyage | Columbus | to the Caribbean | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
Option 3
Cook's mapping of New Zealand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mapping | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Cook | case |
| 3 | mapping | mapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Zealand | case |
| 5 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Zealand | flat |
| 6 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mapping | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Amundsen's journey to the South Pole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amundsen | Amundsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 journey | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Amundsen | case |
| 3 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Pole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pole | det |
| 6 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Pole | compound |
| 7 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 journey | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | Amundsen | to the South Pole | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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