Exam question 4 · Latin America and the Caribbean
State the year in which the Federative Republic of Brazil abolished slavery.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Federative Republic · What happens: abolish · To what, where: State
This is exam question 4 of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abolished | obl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 abolished | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Republic | det |
| 7 | Federative | federative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Republic | amod |
| 8 | Republic | Republic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 abolished | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Brazil | case |
| 10 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Republic | nmod |
| 11 | abolished | abolish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abolished | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 abolished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abolish | past | the Federative Republic of Brazil | State the year | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slavery=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
1888
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1888 | 1888 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
1822
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1822 | 1822 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
1865
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1865 | 1865 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1960
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1960 | 1960 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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