Test 3 · ★ · The Atlantic routes and the slave trade

Why did so many people die on the Middle Passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many people · What happens: die · To what, where: Middle Passage

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 many	aux
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 die	nsubj
6	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 Passage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Passage	det
9	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Passage	compound
10	Passage	Passage	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 die	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 die	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	many people			the Middle Passage			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 ships nearly always sank in the Atlantic storms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ships	det
2	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sank	obl
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 sank	advmod
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 sank	advmod
5	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 storms	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 storms	det
8	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 storms	compound
9	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past		the ships		the Atlantic storms		always, nearly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The crossing took only one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crossing	det
2	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the crossing				day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They were given too much food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		They					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient food=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They were chained in crowded, filthy holds for weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chained	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chained	aux:pass
3	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 holds	mark
5	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 holds	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 filthy	punct
7	filthy	filthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crowded	conj
8	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chained	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 weeks	case
10	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 holds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chain	past · passive		They					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	hold	present	crowded				week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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