Test 1 · ★ · Native peoples of North America
in cowboy films all native americans wear feather headdresses and live in tipis. right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: native americans · What happens: wear, live · To what, where: feather headdresses, cowboy films, tipis
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 17 «Native peoples of North America» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 films | case |
| 2 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 films | compound |
| 3 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wear | obl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 americans | det |
| 5 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 americans | amod |
| 6 | americans | american | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wear | nsubj |
| 7 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 headdresses | compound |
| 9 | headdresses | headdress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wear | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 live | cc |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wear | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tipis | case |
| 13 | tipis | tipi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 live | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wear | punct |
| 15 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 wear | discourse |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 wear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | all native americans | feather headdresses | cowboy films | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent headdress=Source | |||
| 2 | live | present | all native americans not said here | tipis | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tipi=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, every nation did, from Florida to Alaska
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 nation | det |
| 4 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Florida | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Florida | case |
| 8 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Alaska | case |
| 10 | Alaska | Alaska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | every nation | Alaska | Florida | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, that was only some Plains peoples
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 peoples | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 peoples | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 peoples | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 peoples | advmod |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 peoples | det |
| 7 | Plains | Plain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 peoples | compound |
| 8 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | some Plains peoples | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, even the Inuit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 Inuit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 Inuit | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Inuit | det |
| 5 | Inuit | Inuit | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No, none of them ever did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 none | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 did | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 none | nmod |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 did | advmod |
| 7 | did | do | 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 | do | past | none | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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