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Test 10 · ★★★ · Australia and New Zealand: a short story

A game gives you a free colony in Australia in 1788 with 'no population'. What would a historian change?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: game · What happens: give · To what, where: free colony, you, Australia

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: 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

Sentence 1: A game gives you a free colony in Australia in 1788 with 'no population'.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 gives	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 colony	det
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colony	amod
7	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Australia	case
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 colony	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1788	case
11	1788	1788	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 colony	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 population	case
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 population	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 population	det
15	population	population	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obl
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 population	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	a game	a free colony	you	Australia		in 1788; with no population	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient colony=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.

Sentence 2: What would a historian change?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 change	det
4	historian	historian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 change	amod
5	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Add the Aboriginal peoples who had lived there for over 50,000 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peoples	det
3	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peoples	amod
4	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Add	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	aux
7	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 peoples	acl:relcl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lived	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	over	over	ADV	_	11 50,000	advmod
11	50,000	50000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the Aboriginal peoples					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	live	past · perfect	the Aboriginal peoples			there	year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Add the Romans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Romans	det
3	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Add	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the Romans					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roman=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, the land was empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 empty	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 land	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 empty	cop
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nothing					empty property	tree rules

Option 4

Add Vikings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Add	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	Vikings					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent viking=Patient

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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