Test 9 · Canada: a short story

Who lived in Canada before the French arrived in 1608?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: French · What happens: live, arrive · To what, where: Canada, 1608

This is test 9 of lesson 39 «Canada: a short story» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Canada	case
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 arrived	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 French	det
7	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	nsubj
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1608	case
10	1608	1608	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 arrived	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past				Canada			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canada=Location
2	arrive	past	the French			1608			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

First Nations and Inuit peoples, for thousands of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 Nations	amod
2	Nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 peoples	cc
4	Inuit	inuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 peoples	compound
5	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Nations	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thousands	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 thousands	case
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Nations	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thousands	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only the British

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 British	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 British	det
3	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Only Vikings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 Vikings	advmod
2	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Nobody, it was empty land with only beavers, moose and bears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 land	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 land	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 land	cop
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 beavers	case
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 beavers	advmod
9	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 land	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 moose	punct
11	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beavers	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bears	cc
13	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 beavers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Nobody	empty land				with beavers and bears	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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