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title: Which is true about Polynesian navigators? — Explorers and how the world was mapped · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about Polynesian navigators? Test 8 · ★★ 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 8 · ★★ · Explorers and how the world was mapped

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Which is true about Polynesian navigators?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t8:1
# text = Which is true about Polynesian navigators?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	navigators	navigator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about Polynesian navigators; true *property* | 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 {#o1}

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They sailed only along coasts, within sight of land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t8:o1:1
# text = They sailed only along coasts, within sight of land
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | They |  |  | coasts |  | within sight of land | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along coast=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sight** |  |  | land |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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They crossed the ocean by steamship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t8:o2:1
# text = They crossed the ocean by steamship
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	steamship	steamship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | They | the ocean |  |  |  | by steamship | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient |

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

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They found tiny islands without compasses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t8:o3:1
# text = They found tiny islands without compasses
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	compasses	compass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | They | tiny islands |  |  |  | without compasses | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They used maps made by Captain Cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:98-explorers-mapping-the-world:t8:o4:1
# text = They used maps made by Captain Cook
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | They | maps |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | maps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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