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title: In EU5 the colonial map of North America looks empty before European… — The United States · tree and pragmatics
description: In EU5 the colonial map of North America looks empty before Europeans arrive. What is wrong with that? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The United States» 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 2 · ★★ · The United States

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In EU5 the colonial map of North America looks empty before Europeans arrive. What is wrong with that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** colonial map, Europeans · **What happens:** look, arrive, be

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 9 «The United States» 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/9-the-united-states/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In EU5 the colonial map of North America looks empty before Europeans arrive.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:9-the-united-states:t2:1
# text = In EU5 the colonial map of North America looks empty before Europeans arrive.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	EU5	EU5	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | the colonial map of North America |  |  |  |  | in EU5; empty *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in eu5=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** | present | Europeans |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 wrong with that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:9-the-united-states:t2:2
# text = What is wrong with that?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with that; wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Only a few hundred people lived there, mostly hunters by the coast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:9-the-united-states:t2:o1:1
# text = Only a few hundred people lived there, mostly hunters by the coast
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | hundred people | hunters |  | there |  | by the coast | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by coast=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Millions of Native Americans already lived there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:9-the-united-states:t2:o2:1
# text = Millions of Native Americans already lived there
1	Millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Americans	American	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Millions of Native Americans |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The land was all ice then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:9-the-united-states:t2:o3:1
# text = The land was all ice then
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the land | all ice |  |  | then |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, the land was empty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:9-the-united-states:t2:o4:1
# text = Nothing, the land was empty
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Nothing |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |

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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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