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Test 2 · ★ · Native peoples of North America

My mate says the Inuit lived in igloos all year round. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Inuit · What happens: say, live, be · To what, where: igloos · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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: My mate says the Inuit lived in igloos all year round.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Inuit	det
5	Inuit	Inuit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 igloos	case
8	igloos	igloo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl:unmarked
11	round	round	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live	past	the Inuit			igloos	year	round property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in igloo=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: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

They lived in tipis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 tipis	case
4	tipis	tipi	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	They			tipis			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tipi=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Many lived in houses of stone, turf and skins; igloos were for winter

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 houses	case
4	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 stone	case
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 houses	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turf	punct
8	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stone	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 skins	cc
10	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turf	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 winter	punct
12	igloos	igloo	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 winter	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 winter	cop
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 winter	case
15	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Many			houses of stone and turf and skins			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
2	is	past	igloos					for winter	tree rules

Option 3

They lived in pyramids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 pyramids	case
4	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	They			pyramids			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pyramid=Location

Option 4

Yes, all year in igloos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 year	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 igloos	case
6	igloos	igloo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 year	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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