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Test 5 · ★ · Native peoples of North America

Cowboy films show settlers as heroes. How was it for Native nations?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cowboy films, it · What happens: show, be · To what, where: settlers

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Cowboy films show settlers as heroes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 films	compound
2	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nsubj
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 heroes	case
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Cowboy films	settlers				as heroes	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent settler=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: How was it for Native nations?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 How	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 nations	case
5	Native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nations	amod
6	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 How	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					for Native nations; how property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They won every war

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 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 war	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	They	every war					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality

Option 2

They had no homes to lose

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 homes	det
4	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lose	mark
6	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	no homes					tree rules
2	lose	to-infinitive	no homes not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They lost their homes and lands

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 homes	nmod:poss
4	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lost	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lands	cc
6	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 homes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	They	their homes and lands					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Eventuality

Option 4

They were glad to move to new lands in the west

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	3 glad	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 glad	cop
3	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 move	mark
5	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 glad	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lands	case
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lands	amod
8	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 move	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 west	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 west	det
11	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					glad property	tree rules
2	move	to-infinitive	They not said here			the west		to new lands	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to land=Source in west=Trajectory

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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