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title: Why did Cook's maps bring more Europeans to New Zealand? — Explorers: Cook and the Pacific · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did Cook's maps bring more Europeans to New Zealand? Test 8 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 8 · Explorers: Cook and the Pacific

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Why did Cook's maps bring more Europeans to New Zealand?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** maps · **What happens:** do, bring · **To what, where:** more Europeans, New Zealand

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t8:1
# text = Why did Cook's maps bring more Europeans to New Zealand?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
3	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Cook's maps *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | present | Cook's maps | more Europeans | New Zealand |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent european=Theme to zealand=Destination |

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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 showed gold on every hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t8:o1:1
# text = They showed gold on every hill
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | They | gold |  | every hill |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gold=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Good maps made the voyage easier to plan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t8:o2:1
# text = Good maps made the voyage easier to plan
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	plan	plan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Good maps | the voyage |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product |
| 2 | **plan** | to-infinitive | the voyage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The maps were sold as treasure maps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t8:o3:1
# text = The maps were sold as treasure maps
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past · passive |  | the maps |  |  |  | as treasure maps | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Māori sent the maps to Europe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific:t8:o4:1
# text = The Māori sent the maps to Europe
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Māori	Māori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the Māori | the maps | Europe |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent map=Theme to europe=Destination |

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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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