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description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the condition of the east coast of Australia at the time of Cook's landing in seventeen hundred and seventy? Exam question 2 of lesson 28 «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Exam question 2 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the condition of the east coast of Australia at the time of Cook's landing in seventeen hundred and seventy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** follow, characteris, condition · **To what, where:** condition, east coast

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 28 «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» 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/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:e2:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the condition of the east coast of Australia at the time of Cook's landing in seventeen hundred and seventy?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	compound	_	_
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | the condition of the east coast of Australia |  |  | time | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **condition** |  |  | the east coast of Australia |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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It had been inhabited by Aboriginal peoples for over fifty thousand years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:e2:o1:1
# text = It had been inhabited by Aboriginal peoples for over fifty thousand years
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inhabit** | past · perfect · passive | Aboriginal peoples | It |  |  | year |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It was governed by the Māori

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:e2:o2:1
# text = It was governed by the Māori
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	governed	govern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **govern** | past · passive | the Māori | It |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It was uninhabited

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:e2:o3:1
# text = It was uninhabited
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	uninhabited	uninhabited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | uninhabited *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It was a Dutch colony

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:e2:o4:1
# text = It was a Dutch colony
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a Dutch colony |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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