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title: Why did the poles and Everest stay unreached long after the coasts w… — Explorers and how the world was mapped · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did the poles and Everest stay unreached long after the coasts were mapped? Test 6 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Explorers and how the world was mapped

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Why did the poles and Everest stay unreached long after the coasts were mapped?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** poles · **What happens:** do, stay, unreach, map · **To what, where:** coasts

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t6:1
# text = Why did the poles and Everest stay unreached long after the coasts were mapped?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Everest	Everest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	unreached	unreach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	mapped	map	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | present | the poles and Everest |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **unreach** | past |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **map** | past · passive |  | the coasts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Kings did not allow anyone to go there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t6:o1:1
# text = Kings did not allow anyone to go there
1	Kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | past · do-support | Kings |  | anyone |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer anyone=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kings *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nobody knew that the poles existed at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t6:o2:1
# text = Nobody knew that the poles existed at all
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **exist** | past | the poles |  |  | all |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They were hidden under the ocean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t6:o3:1
# text = They were hidden under the ocean
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · passive |  | They |  | the ocean |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under ocean=Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The cold, ice and height made them deadly hard to reach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t6:o4:1
# text = The cold, ice and height made them deadly hard to reach
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the cold ice and height | them *= they* |  |  |  | deadly, hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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