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title: Why were Cook's crews healthier than Magellan's? — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: Why were Cook's crews healthier than Magellan's? Test 2 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

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Why were Cook's crews healthier than Magellan's?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** crews · **What happens:** be

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This is test 2 of lesson 28 «Explorers: Cook and the Pacific» 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/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t2:1
# text = Why were Cook's crews healthier than Magellan's?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	crews	crew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	healthier	healthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Magellan	Magellan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Cook's crews |  |  |  |  | than Magellan; healthy *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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They were all younger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t2:o1:1
# text = They were all younger
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They sailed only in summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t2:o2:1
# text = They sailed only in summer
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | They |  |  |  | summer |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They ate fresh food and sauerkraut against scurvy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t2:o3:1
# text = They ate fresh food and sauerkraut against scurvy
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sauerkraut	sauerkraut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | They | fresh food and sauerkraut against scurvy |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They had modern medicine and doctors on board

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t2:o4:1
# text = They had modern medicine and doctors on board
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | They | modern medicine and doctors |  | board |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=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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