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title: in cowboy films all native americans wear feather headdresses and li… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics
description: in cowboy films all native americans wear feather headdresses and live in tipis. right? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 17 «Native peoples of North America» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Native peoples of North America

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in cowboy films all native americans wear feather headdresses and live in tipis. right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** native americans · **What happens:** wear, live · **To what, where:** feather headdresses, cowboy films, tipis

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 17 «Native peoples of North America» of the history 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/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t1:1
# text = in cowboy films all native americans wear feather headdresses and live in tipis. right?
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	americans	american	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	headdresses	headdress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	tipis	tipi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
15	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | all native americans | feather headdresses |  | cowboy films |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent headdress=Source |
| 2 | **live** | present | all native americans *not said here* |  |  | tipis |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tipi=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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Yes, every nation did, from Florida to Alaska

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t1:o1:1
# text = Yes, every nation did, from Florida to Alaska
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Alaska	Alaska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | every nation |  | Alaska | Florida |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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No, that was only some Plains peoples

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t1:o2:1
# text = No, that was only some Plains peoples
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	Plains	Plain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	peoples	people	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 | that | some Plains peoples |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, even the Inuit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t1:o3:1
# text = Yes, even the Inuit
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Inuit	Inuit	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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No, none of them ever did

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t1:o4:1
# text = No, none of them ever did
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | none |  |  |  | ever |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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