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title: In EU5 a Portuguese explorer quickly maps the route round Africa. Ho… — Castile, Portugal and the first sea em… · tree and pragmatics
description: In EU5 a Portuguese explorer quickly maps the route round Africa. How long did it really take? Test 2 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
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# Test 2 · Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires

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In EU5 a Portuguese explorer quickly maps the route round Africa. How long did it really take?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** take

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This is test 2 of lesson 33 «Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In EU5 a Portuguese explorer quickly maps the route round Africa.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:t2:1
# text = In EU5 a Portuguese explorer quickly maps the route round Africa.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	EU5	EU5	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* How long did it really take?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:t2:2
# text = How long did it really take?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · do-support | it |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About three hundred years, from 1200 to 1500

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:t2:o1:1
# text = About three hundred years, from 1200 to 1500
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:t2:o2:1
# text = About a week
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Decades, from the 1410s to 1498

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:t2:o3:1
# text = Decades, from the 1410s to 1498
1	Decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	1410s	1410	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1498	1498	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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One summer in 1337

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:t2:o4:1
# text = One summer in 1337
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1337	1337	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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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