Test 11 · ★ · Native peoples of North America

How did the Ancestral Puebloans farm in the desert?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Puebloans farm, desert

This is test 11 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farm	det
4	Ancestral	Ancestral	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Puebloans	compound
5	Puebloans	Puebloan	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 farm	compound
6	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 desert	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 desert	det
9	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Puebloans farm		the desert			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Eventuality

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

By using huge rivers everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 using	mark
2	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rivers	amod
4	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 using	obj
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 using	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		huge rivers				everywhere property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient

Option 2

By buying food from Spain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 buying	mark
2	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buying	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Spain	case
5	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 buying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	gerund		food		Spain			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from spain=Source

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

By carefully collecting water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 collecting	mark
2	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 collecting	advmod
3	collecting	collect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 collecting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	gerund		water				carefully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 4

By not farming at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 farming	mark
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 farming	advmod
3	farming	farm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 farming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not farm	gerund				all			vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/t11/