Test 10 · ★★ · The people who were already there: what colonisation did
A Spanish settler is given a village whose people must work for him. Which system is this?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: give, work, be · To what, where: Spanish settler, this
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 36 «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» 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: A Spanish settler is given a village whose people must work for him.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 settler | det |
| 2 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 settler | amod |
| 3 | settler | settler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 people | nmod:poss |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 work | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 work | aux |
| 11 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 village | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 work | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | a Spanish settler | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient village=Theme | |||||
| 2 | work | must | people | for him = he | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary |
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: Which system is this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 system | det |
| 2 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 this | cop |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 system | nmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 system | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The devshirme levy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 levy | det |
| 2 | devshirme | devshirme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 levy | amod |
| 3 | levy | levy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The encomienda
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 encomienda | det |
| 2 | encomienda | encomienda | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Commonwealth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Commonwealth | det |
| 2 | Commonwealth | Commonwealth | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Treaty of Waitangi
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Treaty | det |
| 2 | Treaty | Treaty | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Waitangi | case |
| 4 | Waitangi | Waitangi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Treaty | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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