Test 4 · ★★ · The people who were already there: what colonisation did
A Cherokee family in Georgia in 1838 is forced to march west by soldiers. What is this?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cherokee family, this · What happens: force, march, be · To what, where: Cherokee family
This is test 4 · ★★ 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 Cherokee family in Georgia in 1838 is forced to march west by soldiers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 2 | Cherokee | Cherokee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 family | compound |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Georgia | case |
| 5 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 family | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1838 | case |
| 7 | 1838 | 1838 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 family | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 forced | aux:pass |
| 9 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 march | mark |
| 11 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forced | xcomp |
| 12 | west | west | ADV | _ | 11 march | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 soldiers | case |
| 14 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 march | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 forced | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | present · passive | a Cherokee family in Georgia in 1838 | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | march | to-infinitive | a Cherokee family in Georgia in 1838 not said here | by soldiers; west property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by soldier=Trajectory |
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 this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | 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 right answer
The Trail of Tears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Trail | det |
| 2 | Trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Tears | case |
| 4 | Tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Trail | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The encomienda system
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 system | det |
| 2 | encomienda | encomienda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 system | compound |
| 3 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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 4
The Columbian Exchange
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Exchange | det |
| 2 | Columbian | Columbian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Exchange | compound |
| 3 | Exchange | Exchange | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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