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title: How long did Columbus sail from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean… — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics
description: How long did Columbus sail from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean in 1492? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 26 «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Explorers: around Africa and Columbus

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How long did Columbus sail from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean in 1492?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Columbus sail, Canary Islands

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 26 «Explorers: around Africa and Columbus» of the history 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/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t10:1
# text = How long did Columbus sail from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean in 1492?
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	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Canary	Canary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	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 |  | Columbus sail |  | the Canary Islands |  | to the Caribbean; in 1492; long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Eventuality |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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About five weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t10:o1:1
# text = About five weeks
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About five days only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t10:o2:1
# text = About five days only
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About five short hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t10:o3:1
# text = About five short hours
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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About five years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t10:o4:1
# text = About five years
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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