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description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the death of James Cook. Exam question 4 of lesson 28 «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» 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 r
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# Exam question 4 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the death of James Cook.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, established facts, James Cook · **What happens:** select, establish, concern, die · **To what, where:** response, death

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:e4:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the death of James Cook.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the established facts *not said here* | the death of James Cook |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus death=Experiencer |
| 4 | **die** |  | James Cook |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He was killed in Hawaii in seventeen hundred and seventy-nine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:e4:o1:1
# text = He was killed in Hawaii in seventeen hundred and seventy-nine
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · passive |  | He |  | Hawaii |  | in seventeen hundred | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He died in Antarctica

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:e4:o2:1
# text = He died in Antarctica
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | He |  |  |  |  | in Antarctica | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in antarctica=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He died peacefully in London in the company of his family and friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:e4:o3:1
# text = He died peacefully in London in the company of his family and friends
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | He |  |  |  |  | in the company of London's family and friends; in London; peacefully *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in london=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He perished at Botany Bay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:e4:o4:1
# text = He perished at Botany Bay
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	perished	perish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Botany	Botany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | past | He |  |  | Botany Bay |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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