--- title: State the commodity from which the territory of Brazil derives its n… — Castile, Portugal and the first sea em… · tree and pragmatics description: State the commodity from which the territory of Brazil derives its name. Exam question 4 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 question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Castile, Portugal and the first sea em…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires State the commodity from which the territory of Brazil derives its name. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, territory · **What happens:** state, derive, name · **To what, where:** commodity, name This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:e4:1 # text = State the commodity from which the territory of Brazil derives its name. 1 State state VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 commodity commodity NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 territory territory NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 derives derive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the commodity | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent commodity=Topic | | 2 | **derive** | present | the territory of Brazil | territory's name | | the commodity | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent name=Result from which=Material | | 3 | **name** | | territory | | | | | | nom name «communication 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Sugar cane juice ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:e4:o1:1 # text = Sugar cane juice 1 Sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cane cane NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 juice juice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Brazilwood ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:e4:o2:1 # text = Brazilwood 1 Brazilwood brazilwood NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Silver ore ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:e4:o3:1 # text = Silver ore 1 Silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 ore ore NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Spices from Asia ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:e4:o4:1 # text = Spices from Asia 1 Spices spice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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