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title: A ship leaves Acapulco loaded with silver and comes back with silk a… — Castile, Portugal and the first sea em… · tree and pragmatics
description: A ship leaves Acapulco loaded with silver and comes back with silk and porcelain. What is it? Test 8 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 8 · Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires

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A ship leaves Acapulco loaded with silver and comes back with silk and porcelain. What is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ship, Acapulco · **What happens:** leave, load, come back, be

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A ship leaves Acapulco loaded with silver and comes back with silk and porcelain.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:t8:1
# text = A ship leaves Acapulco loaded with silver and comes back with silk and porcelain.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Acapulco	Acapulco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	loaded	load	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | a ship |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **load** | past | Acapulco |  |  |  |  | with silver | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=Theme |
| 3 | **come back** | present | a ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with silk and porcelain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:t8:2
# text = What is it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | ship |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A caravel of Henry the Navigator

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:t8:o1:1
# text = A caravel of Henry the Navigator
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	caravel	caravel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Navigator	Navigator	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A Viking longship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:t8:o2:1
# text = A Viking longship
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Viking	viking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	longship	longship	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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A Manila galleon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:t8:o3:1
# text = A Manila galleon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Manila	Manila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	galleon	galleon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A Venetian galley

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires:t8:o4:1
# text = A Venetian galley
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Venetian	venetian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	galley	galley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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