why is "test-jar" dependency required for "mvn compile"

I'm having trouble using test-jar dependencies in a multi-module project. For example, when I declare that the cleartk-syntax module depends on the cleartk-token module's test-jar like this (the full code is here):

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.cleartk</groupId>
<artifactId>cleartk-syntax</artifactId>
<version>0.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>cleartk-syntax</name>
...
<dependencies>
    ...
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.cleartk</groupId>
        <artifactId>cleartk-token</artifactId>
        <version>0.7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>test-jar</type>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

I get the following error if I run mvn compile using maven 2:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.

Missing:
----------
1) org.cleartk:cleartk-token:test-jar:tests:0.7.0-SNAPSHOT

If I use maven 3 I get the error:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4.654s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Jan 24 21:19:17 CET 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 16M/81M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project cleartk-syntax: Could not resolve
dependencies for project org.cleartk:cleartk-syntax:jar:0.5.0-SNAPSHOT: Could
not find artifact org.cleartk:cleartk-token:jar:tests:0.7.0-SNAPSHOT

In the latter case, I'm pa