Test 7 · ★★ · The people who were already there: what colonisation did

ugh, history's all done n dusted, Indigenous peoples aren't around anymore, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Indigenous peoples · What happens: do, not dust, not be · To what, where: history

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	6 done	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ugh	punct
3	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	n	not	ADV	_	8 dusted	advmod
8	dusted	dust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 done	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 anymore	punct
10	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 peoples	amod
11	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 anymore	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 anymore	cop
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 anymore	advmod
14	around	around	ADV	_	15 anymore	advmod
15	anymore	anymore	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 anymore	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	6 done	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present · passive		history	all property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	not dust	participle				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	Indigenous peoples		anymore, around property	tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1

Wrong, but only in Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Europe	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 Europe	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Europe	case
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wrong	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wrong, about 476 million live today in about 90 countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 million	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 million	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 million	advmod
4	476	476	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 million	compound
5	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 live	nsubj
6	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 live	obl:unmarked
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 countries	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 90	advmod
10	90	90	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 countries	nummod
11	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Wrong 476 million			90 countries	today		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location

Option 3

Right, only a few hundred are left, all of them in museums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	8 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 hundred	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hundred	amod
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 left	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux:pass
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 left	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 all	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 museums	case
14	museums	museum	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · passive		a few hundred		museums			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme all=Attribute

Option 4

Right, they all died out by 1900

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 died	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 died	advmod
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 died	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 1900	case
8	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	past	they					by 1900; all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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