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title: A Spanish settler is given a village whose people must work for him.… — The people who were already there: wha… · tree and pragmatics
description: A Spanish settler is given a village whose people must work for him. Which system is this? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 36 «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 10 · ★★ · The people who were already there: what colonisation did

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A Spanish settler is given a village whose people must work for him. Which system is this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** give, work, be · **To what, where:** Spanish settler, this

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 36 «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» 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/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A Spanish settler is given a village whose people must work for him.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t10:1
# text = A Spanish settler is given a village whose people must work for him.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	settler	settler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | a Spanish settler |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient village=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | must | people |  |  |  |  | for him *= he* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which system is this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t10:2
# text = Which system is this?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The devshirme levy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t10:o1:1
# text = The devshirme levy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	devshirme	devshirme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	levy	levy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The encomienda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t10:o2:1
# text = The encomienda
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	encomienda	encomienda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Commonwealth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t10:o3:1
# text = The Commonwealth
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Treaty of Waitangi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t10:o4:1
# text = The Treaty of Waitangi
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Waitangi	Waitangi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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