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title: why'd cook even need a tahitian guy on the ship — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: why'd cook even need a tahitian guy on the ship Test 6 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 6 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

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why'd cook even need a tahitian guy on the ship

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** cook, need · **To what, where:** tahitian guy, ship

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t6:1
# text = why'd cook even need a tahitian guy on the ship
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	cook	cook	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	tahitian	tahitian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present |  | a tahitian guy |  | the ship |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot guy=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 {#o1}

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He was a stowaway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t6:o1:1
# text = He was a stowaway
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stowaway	stowaway	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 | He | a stowaway |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He did not need anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t6:o2:1
# text = He did not need anyone
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | past · do-support | He | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot anyone=Theme |

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

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Tupaia knew the Pacific and helped talk with the Māori

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t6:o3:1
# text = Tupaia knew the Pacific and helped talk with the Māori
1	Tupaia	Tupaia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	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	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Tupaia | the Pacific |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pacific=Stimulus |
| 2 | **help** | past | Tupaia *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** | infinitive | Tupaia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the Māori | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with māori=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He was the ship's cook and made very good meals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t6:o4:1
# text = He was the ship's cook and made very good meals
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | He *not said here* | the ship's cook |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | He | good meals |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Product |

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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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