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Test 9 · Gemstones and precious metals

A game shows Potosí as a happy mining town where everyone got rich. What is the true story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: game, everyone, true story · What happens: show, get, be · To what, where: Potosí

This is test 9 of lesson 51 «Gemstones and precious metals» 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 game shows Potosí as a happy mining town where everyone got rich.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Potosí	Potosí	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 town	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 town	det
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 town	amod
8	mining	mining	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 town	compound
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 got	advmod
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 town	acl:relcl
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 got	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a game		Potosí			as a happy mining town	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent potosí=Recipient
2	get	past	everyone					rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 true story?

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	5 story	det
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was mined by robots in the 1500s

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	3 mined	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mined	aux:pass
3	mined	mine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 robots	case
5	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mined	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 1500s	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 1500s	det
8	1500s	1500	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 mined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mine	past · passive	robots	It		the 1500s			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1500=Location

Option 2

It was a quiet farming village with no mine and no silver at all

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	6 village	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 village	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 village	det
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 village	amod
5	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 village	compound
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 mine	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 mine	det
9	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 village	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 silver	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 silver	det
12	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mine	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 village	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a quiet farming village		all		with no mine and no silver	tree rules

Option 3

Its miners were all paid well and free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 miners	nmod:poss
2	miners	miner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paid	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 paid	advmod
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 paid	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 free	cc
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive		Its miners				all, well property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Indigenous people were forced to mine it and many thousands died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forced	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forced	aux:pass
4	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 mine	mark
6	mine	mine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forced	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mine	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 died	cc
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thousands	amod
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 died	nsubj
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forced	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	past · passive		Indigenous people					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	mine	to-infinitive	Indigenous people not said here	it					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	die	past	many thousands						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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