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title: Which explorer's journey happened first? — Explorers and how the world was mapped · tree and pragmatics
description: Which explorer's journey happened first? Test 3 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Explorers and how the world was mapped

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Which explorer's journey happened first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** journey, explorer · **What happens:** happen, journey

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This is test 3 · ★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t3:1
# text = Which explorer's journey happened first?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | which explorer's journey |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **journey** |  | which explorer |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Leif Erikson's voyage to North America

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t3:o1:1
# text = Leif Erikson's voyage to North America
1	Leif	Leif	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Erikson	Erikson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **voyage** |  | Leif |  |  |  |  | to North America | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t3:o2:1
# text = Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean
1	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **voyage** |  | Columbus |  |  |  |  | to the Caribbean | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cook's mapping of New Zealand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t3:o3:1
# text = Cook's mapping of New Zealand
1	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mapping	mapping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Amundsen's journey to the South Pole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t3:o4:1
# text = Amundsen's journey to the South Pole
1	Amundsen	Amundsen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** |  | Amundsen |  |  |  |  | to the South Pole | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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