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title: Two people sign a treaty but their two copies promise different thin… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: Two people sign a treaty but their two copies promise different things. What is likely to happen? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: 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 ch
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# Test 2 · ★★★ · Australia and New Zealand: a short story

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Two people sign a treaty but their two copies promise different things. What is likely to happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Two people, two copies, people · **What happens:** sign, promise, copy, be, happen · **To what, where:** treaty, different things

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This is test 2 · ★★★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Two people sign a treaty but their two copies promise different things.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t2:1
# text = Two people sign a treaty but their two copies promise different things.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sign	sign	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	copies	copy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** | present | Two people | a treaty |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent treaty=Destination |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | people's two copies | different things |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 3 | **copy** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom copy «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:* What is likely to happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t2:2
# text = What is likely to happen?
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	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nothing, wording never matters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t2:o1:1
# text = Nothing, wording never matters
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	wording	word	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **word** | gerund | Nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **matter** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The treaty becomes invisible

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t2:o2:1
# text = The treaty becomes invisible
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | the treaty |  |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Everyone agrees for ever, because a signed treaty can never be argued over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t2:o3:1
# text = Everyone agrees for ever, because a signed treaty can never be argued over
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | Everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sign** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **argue over** *speech: disagree* | can · passive |  | a signed treaty |  |  |  | over *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Each side expects different things and disputes follow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t2:o4:1
# text = Each side expects different things and disputes follow
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	expects	expect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	disputes	dispute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | present | each side |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | present | different things and disputes |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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