--- title: A cowboy film shows the west as empty land waiting for settlers. Wha… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: A cowboy film shows the west as empty land waiting for settlers. What is missing? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 38 «The United States: a short story» 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/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/t8/) [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/) / [The United States: a short story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★★ · The United States: a short story A cowboy film shows the west as empty land waiting for settlers. What is missing? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cowboy film, empty land · **What happens:** show, wait, be · **To what, where:** west This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 38 «The United States: a short story» 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/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A cowboy film shows the west as empty land waiting for settlers. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:t8:1 # text = A cowboy film shows the west as empty land waiting for settlers. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cowboy cowboy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 settlers settler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | a cowboy film | the west | | | | as empty land | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent west=Recipient | | 2 | **wait** | gerund | empty land *not said here* | | | | | for settlers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:* What is missing? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:t8:2 # text = What is missing? 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 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | missing *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} The horses ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:t8:o1:1 # text = The horses 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The Native nations who lived there ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:t8:o2:1 # text = The Native nations who lived there 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 nations nation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | the Native nations | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nothing at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:t8:o3:1 # text = Nothing at all 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The trains ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:t8:o4:1 # text = The trains 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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