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title: Who lived in Canada before the French arrived in 1608? — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: Who lived in Canada before the French arrived in 1608? Test 9 of lesson 39 «Canada: 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · Canada: a short story

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Who lived in Canada before the French arrived in 1608?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** French · **What happens:** live, arrive · **To what, where:** Canada, 1608

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This is test 9 of lesson 39 «Canada: 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/39-canada-a-short-story/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t9:1
# text = Who lived in Canada before the French arrived in 1608?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1608	1608	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  |  |  | Canada |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canada=Location |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | the French |  |  | 1608 |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
First Nations and Inuit peoples, for thousands of years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t9:o1:1
# text = First Nations and Inuit peoples, for thousands of years
1	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	amod	_	_
2	Nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	Inuit	inuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only the British

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t9:o2:1
# text = Only the British
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only Vikings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t9:o3:1
# text = Only Vikings
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nobody, it was empty land with only beavers, moose and bears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:t9:o4:1
# text = Nobody, it was empty land with only beavers, moose and bears
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	beavers	beaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nobody | empty land |  |  |  | with beavers and bears | tree rules |

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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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