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Test 9 · ★ · Native peoples of North America

A city of mounds, 15,000 people, 900 years ago, near St Louis. What does it show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: city · What happens: show

This is test 9 · ★ 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: A city of mounds, 15,000 people, 900 years ago, near St Louis.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 mounds	case
4	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 city	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 people	punct
6	15,000	15000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 people	nummod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mounds	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 years	punct
9	900	900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mounds	conj
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 years	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Louis	punct
13	near	near	ADP	_	15 Louis	case
14	St	St	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Louis	compound
15	Louis	Louis	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 city	appos
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 city	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: What does it show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	city						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Europeans built it long ago and then left it empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	obj
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 ago	advmod
5	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 built	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 left	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 left	advmod
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 built	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	obj
10	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	Europeans	it				ago property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
2	leave	past	Europeans not said here	it			then	empty property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Nobody lived in America then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 America	case
4	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Nobody			America	then		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

North America had towns long before Europeans came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 America	compound
2	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 had	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	Europeans	European	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	North America	towns				long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient
2	come	past	Europeans						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It was a Viking camp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 camp	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 camp	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 camp	det
4	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 camp	compound
5	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a Viking camp					tree rules

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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