Test 6 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

Why does Canada now teach children about residential schools?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: teach · To what, where: children

This is test 6 of lesson 10 «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl:relcl
3	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 teach	advmod
5	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	advcl
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 teach	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 schools	case
8	residential	residential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 schools	amod
9	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 children	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present			children		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent child=Recipient about school=Topic

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

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

So the harm done to Indigenous children is known and not repeated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	9 known	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 harm	det
3	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 known	nsubj:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 harm	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 children	amod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 done	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 known	aux:pass
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 repeated	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 repeated	advmod
12	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 known	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	participle	the harm not said here	to Indigenous children	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know	present · passive	the harm		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	not repeat	participle			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Because they were popular schools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 schools	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 schools	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 schools	cop
4	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 schools	amod
5	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	popular schools					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Because they taught French

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 taught	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taught	nsubj
3	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 taught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	they		French				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent french=Recipient

Option 4

Because Canada still runs them in the far north for Inuit children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 runs	mark
2	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 runs	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 runs	advmod
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 runs	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 north	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 north	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 north	amod
9	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 children	case
11	Inuit	Inuit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 children	compound
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 north	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	Canada	them = they		the far north for Inuit children	still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme in north=Trajectory

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