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description: If the Earth really were as small as Columbus thought, where would he have landed? Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · Explorers: around Africa and Columbus

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If the Earth really were as small as Columbus thought, where would he have landed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Earth, Columbus · **What happens:** be, think, land

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t5:1
# text = If the Earth really were as small as Columbus thought, where would he have landed?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the Earth |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Columbus |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **land** | would · perfect | Columbus |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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In Antarctica

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t5:o1:1
# text = In Antarctica
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In Asia, as he hoped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t5:o2:1
# text = In Asia, as he hoped
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | past | Asia |  |  | Asia |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
On the Moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t5:o3:1
# text = On the Moon
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Back in Spain the next day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t5:o4:1
# text = Back in Spain the next day
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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