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Test 8 · ★★★ · Australia and New Zealand: a short story

Some British settlers spoke of Australia as nobody's land. How does very old rock art prove them wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: British settlers, old rock art · What happens: speak, prove · To what, where: settlers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: Some British settlers spoke of Australia as nobody's land.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 settlers	det
2	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 settlers	amod
3	settlers	settler	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Australia	case
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 land	case
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 land	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 nobody	case
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	some British settlers					of Australia; as nobody's land	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 does very old rock art prove them wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 prove	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 prove	aux
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 art	amod
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 art	compound
6	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prove	nsubj
7	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 prove	obj
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prove	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 prove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present · do-support	old rock art	settlers = settler				wrong property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

The options

Option 1

They prove nothing

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 prove	nsubj
2	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 prove	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	They	nothing					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

Option 2

The art was painted in 1788

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 art	det
2	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 painted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	aux:pass
4	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1788	case
6	1788	1788	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		the art		1788			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 1788=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They show people had lived there for a very long time

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 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	aux
5	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 show	ccomp
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lived	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	They						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live	past · perfect	people			there	time		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Rock art is made by nature alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 art	compound
2	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 nature	case
6	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive	nature	Rock art				alone property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

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