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title: What would Cook's crew see if they kept sailing south past the ice? — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: What would Cook's crew see if they kept sailing south past the ice? Test 7 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 7 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

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What would Cook's crew see if they kept sailing south past the ice?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** crew, they · **What happens:** see, keep, sail · **To what, where:** ice

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t7:1
# text = What would Cook's crew see if they kept sailing south past the ice?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	south	south	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	past	past	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | would | Cook's crew |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sail** | gerund | they *not said here* |  |  | the ice |  | south *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past ice=Trajectory |

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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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The land of Antarctica

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t7:o1:1
# text = The land of Antarctica
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The North Pole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t7:o2:1
# text = The North Pole
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Australia again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t7:o3:1
# text = Australia again
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A warm tropical island

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t7:o4:1
# text = A warm tropical island
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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