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Test 10 · ★★ · When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, s…

Nathan's Cree kokum (grandma): "Missionaries helped make this writing, my boy, but they took things too." What does she mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cree kokum, Missionaries, kokum · What happens: help, make, take, mean · To what, where: writing, things

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 76 «When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides» 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: Nathan's Cree kokum (grandma): "Missionaries helped make this writing, my boy, but they took things too."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kokum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Nathan	case
3	Cree	Cree	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kokum	compound
4	kokum	kokum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 helped	nsubj
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 grandma	punct
6	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kokum	appos
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 grandma	punct
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Missionaries	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Missionaries	punct
10	Missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 helped	nsubj
11	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 helped	xcomp
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 writing	det
14	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 boy	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 boy	nmod:poss
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 helped	conj
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 took	obj
23	too	too	ADV	_	21 took	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 helped	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 helped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help in a quote	past	Nathan's Cree kokum						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make in a quote	infinitive	Nathan's Cree kokum not said here	this writing					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset writing=Product
3	take in a quote	past	Missionaries = missionary	things					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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 does she mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	kokum						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Missionaries invented the Cree language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 invented	nsubj
2	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 language	det
4	Cree	Cree	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 language	compound
5	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 invented	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past	Missionaries	the Cree language					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Missionaries brought writing and schools but often banned local customs and languages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 schools	cc
5	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 writing	conj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 banned	cc
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 banned	advmod
8	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	conj
9	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 customs	amod
10	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 banned	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 languages	cc
12	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 customs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	Missionaries	writing and schools					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent writing=Theme
2	ban	past	Missionaries not said here	local customs and languages				often property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer custom=Theme

Option 3

Missionaries only did harm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Missionaries	harm					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality

Option 4

Missionaries only brought good things, and the Cree were glad of every single one of them

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brought	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 brought	advmod
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brought	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 glad	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 glad	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cree	det
9	Cree	Cree	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 glad	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 glad	cop
11	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brought	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 one	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 one	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 glad	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	Missionaries	good things					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	is	past	the Cree					of every single one of Missionaries; glad property	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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