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title: Which nations did the Haudenosaunee Confederacy join? — The people who were already there: wha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which nations did the Haudenosaunee Confederacy join? Test 9 · ★★ 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; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 9 · ★★ · The people who were already there: what colonisation did

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which nations did the Haudenosaunee Confederacy join?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nations · **What happens:** join

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t9:1
# text = Which nations did the Haudenosaunee Confederacy join?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Haudenosaunee	Haudenosaunee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Confederacy	Confederacy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past · do-support | which nations |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Five, later six, Indigenous nations

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t9:o1:1
# text = Five, later six, Indigenous nations
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Spain and Portugal in one Catholic alliance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t9:o2:1
# text = Spain and Portugal in one Catholic alliance
1	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	Catholic	catholic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	alliance	alliance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
All thirteen of the British colonies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t9:o3:1
# text = All thirteen of the British colonies
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	colonies	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Aztec and Inca empires of the south

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:t9:o4:1
# text = The Aztec and Inca empires of the south
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Aztec	Aztec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Inca	Inca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	empires	empire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	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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