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title: In EU5 you send Portugal down the African coast. How long did the re… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics
description: In EU5 you send Portugal down the African coast. How long did the real Portuguese take to reach the Cape of Good Hope? Test 9 of lesson 5 «Continents and oceans» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 9 · Continents and oceans

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In EU5 you send Portugal down the African coast. How long did the real Portuguese take to reach the Cape of Good Hope?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, real Portuguese · **What happens:** send, do, take, reach · **To what, where:** Portugal, EU5, Cape

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This is test 9 of lesson 5 «Continents and oceans» 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/5-continents-and-oceans/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In EU5 you send Portugal down the African coast.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t9:1
# text = In EU5 you send Portugal down the African coast.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	EU5	EU5	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | you | Portugal |  | EU5 |  | down the African coast | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent portugal=Theme in eu5=Destination |

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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:* How long did the real Portuguese take to reach the Cape of Good Hope?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t9:2
# text = How long did the real Portuguese take to reach the Cape of Good Hope?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Good	Good	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Hope	Hope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | the real Portuguese |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive | the real Portuguese *not said here* | the Cape of Good Hope |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cape=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A single summer in 1337

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t9:o1:1
# text = A single summer in 1337
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1337	1337	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Just one voyage in 1600

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t9:o2:1
# text = Just one voyage in 1600
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1600	1600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It was never reached

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t9:o3:1
# text = It was never reached
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reach** | past · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Decades of voyages, until Dias rounded it in 1488

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:5-continents-and-oceans:t9:o4:1
# text = Decades of voyages, until Dias rounded it in 1488
1	Decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	voyages	voyage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Dias	Dias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rounded	round	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1488	1488	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **round** | past | Decades of voyages | it |  | 1488 |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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