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Test 6 · ★★ · The people who were already there: what colonisation did

A Māori chief signed a text saying chiefs keep their authority, while the English text said the Crown got sovereignty. What problem does this cause?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Māori chief, chiefs, English text, Crown, problem · What happens: sign, say, keep, get, do · To what, where: text, authority, sovereignty, cause · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 Māori chief signed a text saying chiefs keep their authority, while the English text said the Crown got sovereignty.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chief	det
2	Māori	Māori	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chief	compound
3	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signed	nsubj
4	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 text	det
6	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signed	obj
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 signed	advcl
8	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	nsubj
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	ccomp
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 authority	nmod:poss
11	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 text	det
15	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 text	amod
16	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Crown	det
19	Crown	Crown	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
21	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 got	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 signed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign	past	a Māori chief	a text					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent text=Destination
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a Māori chief not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	present	chiefs	their authority					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the English text						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	past	the Crown	sovereignty					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sovereignty=Stimulus

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 problem does this cause?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 problem	obj
2	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 cause	det
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	problem	this cause					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Each side believed it had agreed to something different

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 side	det
2	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 believed	nsubj
3	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 agreed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 agreed	aux
6	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 believed	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 something	case
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 agreed	obl
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	each side						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	agree speech: agree	past · perfect · passive		side				to something	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The chiefs could not sign at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chiefs	det
2	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sign	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sign	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sign	advmod
5	sign	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sign	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sign	could	the chiefs			all			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent at all=Destination

Option 3

The treaty was about Australia

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	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Australia	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Australia	cop
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 Australia	case
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the treaty					about Australia	tree rules

Option 4

None, both texts said exactly the same thing in two languages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 None	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 texts	det
4	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 thing	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 languages	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 languages	nummod
12	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	None			two languages			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in language=Manner

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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