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Test 6 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost

A game shows a happy cartoon mine where workers in Potosí sing on payday. What is the true history?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: game, workers, true history · What happens: show, sing, be · To what, where: happy cartoon, payday

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» 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 a happy cartoon mine where workers in Potosí sing on payday.

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cartoon	det
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cartoon	amod
6	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
7	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 where	nsubj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 cartoon	nmod
9	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sing	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Potosí	case
11	Potosí	Potosí	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 workers	nmod
12	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 where	nsubj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 payday	case
14	payday	payday	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sing	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a game	a happy cartoon					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cartoon=Recipient
2	sing speech: express		workers in Potosí			payday			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.

Sentence 2: What is the true history?

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 history	det
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 history	amod
5	history	history	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 history						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Machines did all the work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 work	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 work	det
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Machines	all work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Indigenous people were forced to mine silver and many 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	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mine	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 died	cc
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind 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	silver					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Theme
3	die	past	many						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

They were well-paid volunteers who came from all over the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 volunteers	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 volunteers	cop
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 paid	advmod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 volunteers	amod
6	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 volunteers	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 world	case
10	all	all	ADV	_	13 world	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle						well property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	They	paid volunteers					tree rules
3	come	past	paid volunteers			the world			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from world=Initial_Location

Option 4

No one ever worked there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 worked	advmod
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 worked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	no one			there	ever		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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