--- title: Ascertain the person who, circa the year 1000, reached the coast of… — The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the person who, circa the year 1000, reached the coast of North America, designated by the Norse as Vinland. Exam question 4 of lesson 20 «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings Ascertain the person who, circa the year 1000, reached the coast of North America, designated by the Norse as Vinland. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, person · **What happens:** ascertain, reach, designate · **To what, where:** person, coast This is exam question 4 of lesson 20 «The Middle Ages begin: the Vikings» of the history 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/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the person who, circa the year 1000, reached the coast of North America, designated by the Norse as Vinland. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 circa circa ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 9 1000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 11 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 designated designate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Norse norse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obl _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Vinland Vinland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic | | 2 | **reach** | past | the person | the coast of North America | | | year | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent coast=Theme | | 3 | **designate** | participle | | the person *not said here* | | | | by the Norse | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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} Marco Polo ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings:e4:o1:1 # text = Marco Polo 1 Marco Marco PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Polo Polo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Harald Hardrada ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings:e4:o2:1 # text = Harald Hardrada 1 Harald Harald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Hardrada Hardrada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Leif Erikson ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings:e4:o3:1 # text = Leif Erikson 1 Leif Leif PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Erikson Erikson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Christopher Columbus ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings:e4:o4:1 # text = Christopher Columbus 1 Christopher Christopher PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` 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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