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Test 5 · ★★ · The people who were already there: what colonisation did

A friend says Australia's history starts in 1788. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, history · What happens: say, start, be · To what, where: 1788 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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 friend says Australia's history starts in 1788.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 history	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Australia	case
6	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 starts	nsubj
7	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1788	case
9	1788	1788	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 starts	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	start	present	Australia's history			1788			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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?

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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Aboriginal peoples had lived there for tens of thousands of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 peoples	amod
2	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	aux
4	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lived	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 tens	case
7	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 thousands	case
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tens	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 years	case
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thousands	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past · perfect	Aboriginal peoples			there		for tens of thousands of years	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It started in 1492 with Columbus

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 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 1492	case
4	1492	1492	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 started	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Columbus	case
6	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 started	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	It			1492		with Columbus	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with columbus=Subeventuality

Option 3

Australia was only found in 1900, by ships from Japan and China

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1900	case
6	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 found	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ships	punct
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 ships	case
9	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 Japan	case
11	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ships	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 China	cc
13	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Japan	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		Australia		1900		by ships from Japan and China	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4

Nothing, nobody lived there before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 nobody	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lived	advmod
6	before	before	ADV	_	4 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	nobody			there		before property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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