Exam question 2 · Native peoples of North America

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the indigenous peoples of North America prior to European arrival?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: indigenous peoples

This is exam question 2 of lesson 17 «Native peoples of North America» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 peoples	det
10	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 peoples	amod
11	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 America	case
13	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 America	compound
14	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 peoples	nmod
15	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	18 arrival	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	15 prior	fixed
17	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 arrival	amod
18	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the indigenous peoples of North America				of the following statements; prior European arrival; accurately property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A single nation with one language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nation	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nation	amod
3	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 language	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 language	nummod
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nation	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A province of the Spanish crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 province	det
2	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 crown	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crown	det
5	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crown	amod
6	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 province	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

An uninhabited continent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 continent	det
2	uninhabited	uninhabited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 continent	amod
3	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Numerous distinct nations with hundreds of languages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nations	amod
2	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nations	amod
3	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 hundreds	case
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nations	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 languages	case
7	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hundreds	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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