Test 9 · ★★ · Explorers and how the world was mapped

Why can we now map places no explorer ever walked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: map, walk · To what, where: places

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	5 map	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 map	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 map	nsubj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 map	advmod
5	map	map	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 walked	advcl
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 map	obj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 explorer	det
8	explorer	explorer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 map	obj
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 walked	advmod
10	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 walked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	map	can	we	places			now		tree rules
2	walk	participle					ever		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Every place has now been walked by explorers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 walked	aux
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 walked	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 walked	aux:pass
6	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 explorers	case
8	explorers	explorer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present · perfect · passive	explorers	every place			now		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory

Option 2

Old maps were already complete

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 maps	amod
2	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 complete	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 complete	cop
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 complete	advmod
5	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Old maps					complete property	tree rules

Option 3

Ships can sail over mountains today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sail	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sail	aux
3	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 mountains	case
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sail	obl
6	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sail	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	can	Ships			mountains	today		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over mountain=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Satellites photograph the whole Earth from space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Satellites	satellite	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 photograph	nsubj
2	photograph	photograph	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Earth	amod
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 photograph	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 space	case
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 photograph	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	photograph	present	Satellites	the whole Earth		space			vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme

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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