Test 8 · ★★ · Explorers and how the world was mapped

Which is true about Polynesian navigators?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 navigators	case
5	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 navigators	amod
6	navigators	navigator	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about Polynesian navigators; true property	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

They sailed only along coasts, within sight of land

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	2 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 sailed	advmod
4	along	along	ADP	_	5 coasts	case
5	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sailed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sight	punct
7	within	within	ADP	_	8 sight	case
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 land	case
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	They			coasts		within sight of land	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along coast=Trajectory
2	sight			land					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They crossed the ocean by steamship

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	2 crossed	nsubj
2	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ocean	det
4	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossed	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 steamship	case
6	steamship	steamship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past	They	the ocean				by steamship	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They found tiny islands without compasses

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	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 islands	amod
4	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obj
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 compasses	case
6	compasses	compass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	They	tiny islands				without compasses	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic

Option 4

They used maps made by Captain Cook

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	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	obj
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 maps	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Cook	case
6	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Cook	compound
7	Cook	Cook	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	They	maps					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Patient
2	make	participle		maps not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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