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Test 10 · ★ · Native peoples of North America

In a strategy game, America at the start is shown as empty land. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: show, be · To what, where: strategy game, start

This is test 10 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In a strategy game, America at the start is shown as empty land.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
3	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 game	compound
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shown	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 America	punct
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 game	nmod:unmarked
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 start	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 start	det
9	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shown	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shown	aux:pass
11	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 land	case
13	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 land	amod
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shown	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 shown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · passive		a strategy game America		the start		as empty land	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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?

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	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, it really was empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Nothing	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 empty	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 empty	cop
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						empty property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Many nations lived there already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nations	amod
2	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lived	advmod
5	already	already	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod

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

Option 3

Only animals lived there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 animals	advmod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lived	advmod

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

Option 4

Only the Vikings lived there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 lived	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Vikings	det
3	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lived	advmod

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

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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