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title: A Cherokee family in Georgia in 1838 is forced to march west by sold… — The people who were already there: wha… · tree and pragmatics
description: A Cherokee family in Georgia in 1838 is forced to march west by soldiers. What is this? Test 4 · ★★ 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; Mo
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# Test 4 · ★★ · The people who were already there: what colonisation did

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A Cherokee family in Georgia in 1838 is forced to march west by soldiers. What is this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Cherokee family, this · **What happens:** force, march, be · **To what, where:** Cherokee family

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A Cherokee family in Georgia in 1838 is forced to march west by soldiers.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t4:1
# text = A Cherokee family in Georgia in 1838 is forced to march west by soldiers.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Cherokee	Cherokee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1838	1838	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	west	west	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | present · passive |  | a Cherokee family in Georgia in 1838 |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **march** | to-infinitive | a Cherokee family in Georgia in 1838 *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by soldiers; west *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by soldier=Trajectory |

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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:* What is this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t4:2
# text = What is this?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The Trail of Tears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t4:o1:1
# text = The Trail of Tears
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The encomienda system

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t4:o2:1
# text = The encomienda system
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	encomienda	encomienda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	system	system	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 devshirme levy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t4:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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The Columbian Exchange

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t4:o4:1
# text = The Columbian Exchange
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Columbian	Columbian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Exchange	Exchange	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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