Test 6 · ★★ · Latin America and the Caribbean

Why was the Haitian Revolution so important in world history?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Haitian Revolution · What happens: be · To what, where: world history

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 important	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 important	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Revolution	det
4	Haitian	haitian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Revolution	amod
5	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 important	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 important	advmod
7	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 history	case
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 history	compound
10	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 important	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 important	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Haitian Revolution			world history		important property	tree rules

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

It was the first war fought with ships

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 war	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 war	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 war	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 war	amod
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fought	nsubj
6	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 ships	case
8	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the first war					tree rules
2	fight	past	the first war					with ships	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ship=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Enslaved people won their freedom and founded the first independent Black republic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 freedom	nmod:poss
5	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 founded	cc
7	founded	found	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 won	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 republic	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 republic	amod
10	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 republic	amod
11	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 republic	amod
12	republic	republic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 founded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	enslave	participle			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	win	past	Enslaved people	people's freedom	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Eventuality
3	found	past	Enslaved people not said here	the first independent Black republic	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Patient

Option 3

It ended slavery everywhere at once, in every country of the world, in the same year

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ended	nsubj
2	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ended	obj
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 ended	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 everywhere	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 country	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ended	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 country	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 year	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 year	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 year	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 year	amod
18	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ended	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past	It	slavery		every country of the world	year	everywhere property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality slavery=Eventuality

Option 4

It made Haiti a French colony again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 colony	det
5	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colony	amod
6	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	2 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	a French colony	Haiti		again		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset haiti=Beneficiary colony=Product

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