Test 10 · ★ · The Atlantic routes and the slave trade

How did the slave trade harm Africa, not only the people taken?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, take · To what, where: trade harm, people

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 30 «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 harm	det
4	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trade	compound
5	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 harm	compound
6	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 harm	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 people	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 people	advmod
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 people	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	parataxis
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 people	acl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the trade harm					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
2	take	participle		the people not said here					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 ended all trade with Africa

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	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 trade	nsubj
4	trade	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ended	ccomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Africa	case
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past	It					with Africa	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	trade	present	all						vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It brought wars and raids and drained kingdoms like Kongo

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 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 raids	cc
5	raids	raid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wars	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drained	cc
7	drained	drain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	conj
8	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drained	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 Kongo	case
10	Kongo	Kongo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 kingdoms	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	It	wars and raids					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent war=Theme
2	drain	past		kingdoms				like Kongo	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent kingdom=Source

Option 3

It made every African kingdom grow larger and richer

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	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 kingdom	det
4	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kingdom	amod
5	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	xcomp
7	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 made	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 richer	cc
9	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 larger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	every African kingdom				large property	tree rules
2	grow	present	every African kingdom not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It only affected the Americas, never Africa itself

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	3 affected	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 affected	advmod
3	affected	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Americas	det
5	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 affected	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Africa	punct
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 Africa	advmod
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 affected	obl
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	8 Africa	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affect	past	It	the Americas				Africa itself obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus americas=Experiencer

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