Test 6 · ★★ · Explorers and how the world was mapped

Why did the poles and Everest stay unreached long after the coasts were mapped?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poles · What happens: do, stay, unreach, map · To what, where: coasts

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 unreached	parataxis
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 poles	det
4	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stay	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Everest	cc
6	Everest	Everest	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 poles	conj
7	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	unreached	unreach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 unreached	advmod
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 mapped	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coasts	det
12	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 mapped	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mapped	aux:pass
14	mapped	map	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 unreached	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 unreached	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	present	the poles and Everest			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	unreach	past			long property	tree rules
4	map	past · passive		the coasts		tree rules

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

Kings did not allow anyone to go there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allow	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 allow	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allow	advmod
4	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 allow	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allow	xcomp
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	past · do-support	Kings		anyone				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer anyone=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kings not said here			there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nobody knew that the poles existed at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 existed	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 poles	det
5	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 existed	nsubj
6	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 existed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	exist	past	the poles			all			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 3

They were hidden under the ocean

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	3 hidden	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hidden	aux:pass
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 ocean	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ocean	det
6	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		They		the ocean			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under ocean=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The cold, ice and height made them deadly hard to reach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ice	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ice	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cold	punct
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 height	cc
6	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ice	conj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	xcomp
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 reach	mark
12	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the cold ice and height	them = they				deadly, hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
2	reach	to-infinitive	them = they not said here						vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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