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Test 2 · ★★ · The United States

In EU5 the colonial map of North America looks empty before Europeans arrive. What is wrong with that?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: colonial map, Europeans · What happens: look, arrive, be

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The United States» 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 North America looks empty before Europeans arrive.

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 America	case
7	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 America	compound
8	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 map	nmod
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looks	xcomp
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 arrive	mark
12	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 arrive	nsubj
13	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 looks	advcl
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 North America					in EU5; empty property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in eu5=Theme
2	arrive	present	Europeans						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 wrong with that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wrong	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with that; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Only a few hundred people lived there, mostly hunters by the coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 hundred	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hundred	amod
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 people	nummod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hunters	punct
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	10 hunters	advmod
10	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 coast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coast	det
13	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	hundred people	hunters		there		by the coast	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by coast=Location

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

Millions of Native Americans already lived there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Americans	case
3	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Americans	amod
4	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Millions	nmod
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Millions of Native Americans			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The land was all ice then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 land	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ice	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ice	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 ice	det
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 ice	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the land	all ice			then		tree rules

Option 4

Nothing, the land was empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 empty	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 land	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 empty	cop
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nothing					empty property	tree rules

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