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title: A Lakota hunter after 1600 rides a horse. Where did the horse come f… — Native peoples of North America · tree and pragmatics
description: A Lakota hunter after 1600 rides a horse. Where did the horse come from? Test 6 · ★ 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.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Native peoples of North America

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A Lakota hunter after 1600 rides a horse. Where did the horse come from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lakota hunter, horse · **What happens:** ride, come · **To what, where:** horse

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A Lakota hunter after 1600 rides a horse.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t6:1
# text = A Lakota hunter after 1600 rides a horse.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Lakota	Lakota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1600	1600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | present | a Lakota hunter after 1600 | a horse |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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:* Where did the horse come from?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t6:2
# text = Where did the horse come from?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · do-support | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The Inuit bred them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t6:o1:1
# text = The Inuit bred them
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Inuit	Inuit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bred	breed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breed** | past | the Inuit | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Vikings brought them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t6:o2:1
# text = The Vikings brought them
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the Vikings | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Horses had always lived wild on the Plains since the ice age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t6:o3:1
# text = Horses had always lived wild on the Plains since the ice age
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Plains	Plain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	since	since	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past · perfect | Horses |  |  | the Plains | since the ice age | always, wild *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plain=Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The Spanish brought horses to the Americas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:17-native-peoples-of-north-america:t6:o4:1
# text = The Spanish brought horses to the Americas
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | the Spanish | horses | the Americas |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to americas=Destination |

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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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