--- title: How did the Ancestral Puebloans farm in the desert? — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics description: How did the Ancestral Puebloans farm in the desert? Test 11 · ★ 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Native peoples of North America](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Native peoples of North America How did the Ancestral Puebloans farm in the desert? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Puebloans farm, desert This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t11:1 # text = How did the Ancestral Puebloans farm in the desert? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 Ancestral Ancestral PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Puebloans Puebloan PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 compound _ _ 6 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the Puebloans farm | | the desert | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Eventuality | 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 {#o1} By using huge rivers everywhere ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t11:o1:1 # text = By using huge rivers everywhere 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _ 3 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 2 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | gerund | | huge rivers | | | | everywhere *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} By buying food from Spain ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t11:o2:1 # text = By buying food from Spain 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 buying buy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | gerund | | food | | Spain | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from spain=Source | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} By carefully collecting water ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t11:o3:1 # text = By carefully collecting water 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 collecting collect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **collect** | gerund | | water | | | | carefully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} By not farming at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t11:o4:1 # text = By not farming at all 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 farming farm VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **farm** | gerund | | | | all | | | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | **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. 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