Test 7 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

What did the Mabo decision of 1992 say about the idea that Australia had belonged to no one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mabo decision, Australia · What happens: do, say, belong · To what, where: Mabo decision, idea, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 decision	det
4	Mabo	Mabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 decision	compound
5	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 1992	case
7	1992	1992	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 say	obl
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 decision	acl:relcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 idea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 idea	det
11	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 belonged	mark
13	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 belonged	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 belonged	aux
15	belonged	belong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 idea	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 one	case
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 belonged	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Mabo decision			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decision=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	the Mabo decision not said here			of 1992; about the idea	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	belong	past · perfect	Australia	the idea not said here	no one		tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

It gave Australia back to Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	iobj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Britain	case
6	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	past	It		Australia			to Britain	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent australia=Theme to britain=Recipient

Option 2

It made Canberra the capital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Canberra	Canberra	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 capital	det
5	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	Canberra					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material canberra=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was wrong: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had rights to their land

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrong	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Aboriginal	punct
5	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wrong	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
7	Torres	Torres	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Strait	compound
8	Strait	Strait	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 peoples	compound
9	Islander	Islander	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 peoples	compound
10	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	conj
12	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 land	nmod:poss
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		wrong property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	have	past	Strait Islander peoples	rights	to peoples's land	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient

Option 4

It was right: the land was empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 empty	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 empty	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 empty	cop
8	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					right property	tree rules
2	is	past	the land					empty property	tree rules

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