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title: Why did Cook carry artists as well as sailors? — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did Cook carry artists as well as sailors? Test 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 right.
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# Test 4 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

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Why did Cook carry artists as well as sailors?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Cook · **What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** artists

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t4:1
# text = Why did Cook carry artists as well as sailors?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · do-support | Cook | artists |  |  |  | as sailors | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent artist=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 {#o1}

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To paint the ship each week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t4:o1:1
# text = To paint the ship each week
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	paint	paint	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | to-infinitive |  | the ship |  |  | week |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ship=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cameras were too heavy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t4:o2:1
# text = Cameras were too heavy
1	Cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	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 | Cameras |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To draw the plants, animals and places they found

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t4:o3:1
# text = To draw the plants, animals and places they found
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | to-infinitive |  | the plants and animals and places |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | plants *= plant* | places *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
To make the captain's portrait every single day of the voyage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t4:o4:1
# text = To make the captain's portrait every single day of the voyage
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the captain's portrait |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset portrait=Product |
| 2 | **portray** |  | the captain |  |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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