--- title: A game gives you a free colony in Australia in 1788 with 'no populat… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: A game gives you a free colony in Australia in 1788 with 'no population'. What would a historian change? 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What would a historian change? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** game · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** free colony, you, Australia This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: 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/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A game gives you a free colony in Australia in 1788 with 'no population'. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t10:1 # text = A game gives you a free colony in Australia in 1788 with 'no population'. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 1788 1788 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | a game | a free colony | you | Australia | | in 1788; with no population | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient colony=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 would a historian change? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t10:2 # text = What would a historian change? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 1 aux _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 historian historian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Add the Aboriginal peoples who had lived there for over 50,000 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t10:o1:1 # text = Add the Aboriginal peoples who had lived there for over 50,000 years 1 Add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Aboriginal aboriginal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 over over ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 50,000 50000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the Aboriginal peoples | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 2 | **live** | past · perfect | the Aboriginal peoples | | | there | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Add the Romans ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t10:o2:1 # text = Add the Romans 1 Add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the Romans | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roman=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nothing, the land was empty ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t10:o3:1 # text = Nothing, the land was empty 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Nothing | | | | | empty *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Add Vikings ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t10:o4:1 # text = Add Vikings 1 Add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 Vikings Viking PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | Vikings | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent viking=Patient | **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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