---
title: Identify the team which first reached the South Pole, together with… — Explorers and how the world was mapped · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the team which first reached the South Pole, together with the year thereof. Exam question 2 of lesson 98 «Explorers and how the world was mapped» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wron
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/e2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Explorers and how the world was mapped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/) / e2

# Exam question 2 · Explorers and how the world was mapped

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Identify the team which first reached the South Pole, together with the year thereof.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, team · **What happens:** identify, reach · **To what, where:** team, South Pole

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 2 of lesson 98 «Explorers and how the world was mapped» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:e2:1
# text = Identify the team which first reached the South Pole, together with the year thereof.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
6	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
15	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the team |  |  | year | thereof, together *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent team=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the team | the South Pole |  |  |  | first *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pole=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hillary and Norgay, in 1953

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:e2:o1:1
# text = Hillary and Norgay, in 1953
1	Hillary	Hillary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Norgay	Norgay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1953	1953	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Captain Robert Scott's team, in 1912

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:e2:o2:1
# text = Captain Robert Scott's team, in 1912
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Scott	Scott	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
5	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1912	1912	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Roald Amundsen's team, in 1911

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:e2:o3:1
# text = Roald Amundsen's team, in 1911
1	Roald	Roald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Amundsen	Amundsen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1911	1911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Magellan's team, in 1522

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:e2:o4:1
# text = Magellan's team, in 1522
1	Magellan	Magellan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1522	1522	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Explorers and how the world was mapped, exam 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/e1/)
- next →: [Explorers and how the world was mapped, exam 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/e3/)
- ↑ back to [Explorers and how the world was mapped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/)