--- title: Cowboy films show settlers as heroes. How was it for Native nations? — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics description: Cowboy films show settlers as heroes. How was it for Native nations? Test 5 · ★ 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. --- [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/t5/) [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/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Native peoples of North America Cowboy films show settlers as heroes. How was it for Native nations? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cowboy films, it · **What happens:** show, be · **To what, where:** settlers This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Cowboy films show settlers as heroes. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t5:1 # text = Cowboy films show settlers as heroes. 1 Cowboy cowboy NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 settlers settler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 heroes hero NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Cowboy films | settlers | | | | as heroes | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent settler=Recipient | 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. *Sentence 2:* How was it for Native nations? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t5:2 # text = How was it for Native nations? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | for Native nations; how *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} They won every war ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t5:o1:1 # text = They won every war 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **win** | past | They | every war | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality | ### Option 2 {#o2} They had no homes to lose ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t5:o2:1 # text = They had no homes to lose 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | They | no homes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lose** | to-infinitive | no homes *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} They lost their homes and lands ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t5:o3:1 # text = They lost their homes and lands 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past | They | their homes and lands | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Eventuality | ### Option 4 {#o4} They were glad to move to new lands in the west ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t5:o4:1 # text = They were glad to move to new lands in the west 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | They | | | | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **move** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | | | the west | | to new lands | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to land=Source in west=Trajectory | **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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