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Test 1 · ★ · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century

In EU5 the colonial map of the Americas looks rock solid in 1836. What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colonial map, truth · What happens: look, be · To what, where: rock, EU5

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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: In EU5 the colonial map of the Americas looks rock solid in 1836.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 EU5	case
2	EU5	EU5	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 looks	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 map	det
4	colonial	colonial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 map	amod
5	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looks	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Americas	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Americas	det
8	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 map	nmod
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looks	obj
11	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rock	amod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 1836	case
13	1836	1836	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 looks	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the colonial map of the Americas	rock		EU5		in 1836	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Attribute

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 the truth?

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the truth						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Spain still held Brazil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 held	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 held	advmod
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 held	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	Spain	Brazil			still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brazil=Theme

Option 2

The colonies stayed under Spain and Portugal until about 1990

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colonies	det
2	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 Spain	case
5	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Portugal	cc
7	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Spain	conj
8	until	until	ADP	_	10 1990	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 1990	advmod
10	1990	1990	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the colonies			Spain and Portugal	until 1990		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under spain=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Most of Spanish America and Brazil were already independent by then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 independent	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 America	case
3	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 America	amod
4	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Most	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Brazil	cc
6	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 America	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 independent	cop
8	already	already	ADV	_	9 independent	advmod
9	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 then	case
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 independent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Most of Spanish America and Brazil					independent property	tree rules

Option 4

The Americas were empty until 1836

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Americas	det
2	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 empty	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 empty	cop
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	until	until	ADP	_	6 1836	case
6	1836	1836	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 empty	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Americas				until 1836	empty property	tree rules

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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