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title: Why does Canada now teach children about residential schools? — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Irelan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does Canada now teach children about residential schools? Test 6 of lesson 10 «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 6 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

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Why does Canada now teach children about residential schools?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** teach · **To what, where:** children

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This is test 6 of lesson 10 «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:t6:1
# text = Why does Canada now teach children about residential schools?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl:relcl	_	_
3	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	residential	residential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present |  |  | children |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent child=Recipient about school=Topic |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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So the harm done to Indigenous children is known and not repeated

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:t6:o1:1
# text = So the harm done to Indigenous children is known and not repeated
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  | the harm *not said here* |  |  |  | to Indigenous children | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** | present · passive |  | the harm |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **repeat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Because they were popular schools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:t6:o2:1
# text = Because they were popular schools
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | they | popular schools |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Because they taught French

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:t6:o3:1
# text = Because they taught French
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | they |  | French |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent french=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Because Canada still runs them in the far north for Inuit children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:t6:o4:1
# text = Because Canada still runs them in the far north for Inuit children
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Inuit	Inuit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | Canada | them *= they* |  | the far north for Inuit children | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme in north=Trajectory |

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**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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