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description: Identify the navigator who first attained India by circumnavigating the African continent, together with the year thereof. Exam question 1 of lesson 33 «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Exam question 1 · Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires

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Identify the navigator who first attained India by circumnavigating the African continent, together with the year thereof.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, navigator · **What happens:** identify, attain, circumnavigate · **To what, where:** navigator, India, African continent

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 33 «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:e1:1
# text = Identify the navigator who first attained India by circumnavigating the African continent, together with the year thereof.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	navigator	navigator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
6	attained	attain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	circumnavigating	circumnavigate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
18	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the navigator |  |  | year | thereof, together *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent navigator=Theme |
| 2 | **attain** | past | the navigator | India |  |  |  | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent india=Theme |
| 3 | **circumnavigate** | gerund | the navigator *not said here* | the African continent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Vasco da Gama, in 1498

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:e1:o1:1
# text = Vasco da Gama, in 1498
1	Vasco	Vasco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	da	Da	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Gama	Gama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1498	1498	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bartolomeu Dias, in 1488

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:e1:o2:1
# text = Bartolomeu Dias, in 1488
1	Bartolomeu	Bartolomeu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Dias	Dias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1488	1488	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Christopher Columbus, in 1492

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:e1:o3:1
# text = Christopher Columbus, in 1492
1	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	amod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hernán Cortés, in 1521

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:e1:o4:1
# text = Hernán Cortés, in 1521
1	Hernán	Hernán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Cortés	Cortés	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1521	1521	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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