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title: Who reached the Americas long before Columbus, apart from the people… — Explorers: around Africa and Columbus · tree and pragmatics
description: Who reached the Americas long before Columbus, apart from the people living there? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Explorers: around Africa and Columbus

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Who reached the Americas long before Columbus, apart from the people living there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** reach, live · **To what, where:** Americas

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t8:1
# text = Who reached the Americas long before Columbus, apart from the people living there?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past |  | the Americas |  |  | before Columbus | from the people; long *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent americas=Theme from people=Source |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | the people *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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.

## The options {#options}

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

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Vikings, around the year 1000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t8:o1:1
# text = Vikings, around the year 1000
1	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nobody at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t8:o2:1
# text = Nobody at all
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Romans, in wooden ships with oars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t8:o3:1
# text = The Romans, in wooden ships with oars
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Mongols, by horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus:t8:o4:1
# text = The Mongols, by horse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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