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Test 2 · ★★ · Latin America and the Caribbean

In Europa Universalis 5, a colony grows in an «empty» province in the Americas. What is wrong with that picture?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: colony · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: Europa

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» 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

Sentence 1: In Europa Universalis 5, a colony grows in an «empty» province in the Americas.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Europa	case
2	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 grows	obl
3	Universalis	Universalis	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Europa	flat
4	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Europa	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Europa	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 colony	det
7	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	nsubj
8	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 province	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 province	det
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 empty	punct
12	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 province	amod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 empty	punct
14	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 Americas	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Americas	det
17	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 grows	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a colony			Europa		in a empty province; in the Americas	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in europa=Location

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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong with that picture?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 picture	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 picture	det
6	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with that picture; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nothing, the Americas had no people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Americas	det
4	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Nothing	no people					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 2

Only Europeans could live in the Americas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Europeans	advmod
2	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 Americas	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Americas	det
7	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	could	Europeans			the Americas			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in americas=Location

Option 3

The provinces were empty because the Ice Age had only just ended there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 provinces	det
2	provinces	province	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 empty	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 empty	cop
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Age	det
7	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Age	compound
8	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 empty	advcl
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 ended	advmod
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 ended	advmod
12	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	advcl
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 ended	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the provinces					empty property	tree rules
2	have	past	the Ice Age						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	end	past	the Ice Age not said here			there			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The land was already home to Indigenous peoples whose societies colonisation broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 land	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 peoples	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 peoples	cop
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 home	advmod
5	home	home	ADV	_	8 peoples	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 peoples	case
7	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 peoples	amod
8	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 societies	nmod:poss
10	societies	society	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 colonisation	compound
11	colonisation	colonisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broke	nsubj
12	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 peoples	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the land					to Indigenous peoples; home property	tree rules
2	break	past	societies colonisation	Indigenous peoples not said here					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient

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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