--- title: A sailor measures the Pole Star higher and higher in the sky each ni… — Explorers and how the world was mapped · tree and pragmatics description: A sailor measures the Pole Star higher and higher in the sky each night. Which way is the ship sailing? Test 1 · ★★ 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 c --- [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/t1/) [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/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★★ · Explorers and how the world was mapped A sailor measures the Pole Star higher and higher in the sky each night. Which way is the ship sailing? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sailor, ship · **What happens:** measure, sail · **To what, where:** Pole Star, sky, way This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 98 «Explorers and how the world was mapped» of the world 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/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A sailor measures the Pole Star higher and higher in the sky each night. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t1:1 # text = A sailor measures the Pole Star higher and higher in the sky each night. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sailor sailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 measures measure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Star Star PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **measure** | present | a sailor | the Pole Star | | the sky | night | high *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme star=Value | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which way is the ship sailing? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t1:2 # text = Which way is the ship sailing? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sailing sail VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sail** | present · progressive | the ship | which way | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} South ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t1:o1:1 # text = South 1 South south ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} West ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t1:o2:1 # text = West 1 West west ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} North ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t1:o3:1 # text = North 1 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} East ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t1:o4:1 # text = East 1 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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