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Test 3 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters

Your mate says people appeared in every country at the same moment. Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, people · What happens: say, appear, be · To what, where: country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 1 «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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: Your mate says people appeared in every country at the same moment.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 appeared	nsubj
5	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 country	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 moment	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moment	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 moment	amod
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	appear	past	people			every country	moment		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location

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: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mate					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, but only after farming began

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 began	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 farming	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 farming	case
6	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	farming						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

No, they all came from Europe first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 Europe	case
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	they			Europe		first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from europe=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, people spread out of Africa step by step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 spread	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spread	nsubj
4	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 step	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 step	case
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 step	compound
8	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 step	case
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread out	present	people	Africa step				by step	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme by step=Destination

Option 4

Yes, people appeared everywhere at once, in every land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 appeared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 appeared	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 appeared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 land	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 land	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	people			every land		everywhere property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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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