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Test 4 · ★ · The Atlantic routes and the slave trade

In the game, sugar from a Caribbean colony is a trade good. What was behind it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: trade, game, sugar

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In the game, sugar from a Caribbean colony is a trade good.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trade	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sugar	punct
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 game	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 colony	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 colony	det
8	Caribbean	caribbean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 colony	amod
9	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 game	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 trade	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trade	det
12	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trade	amod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 trade	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a trade		the game from a Caribbean colony and sugar			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.

Sentence 2: What was behind it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 it	cop
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				sugar			tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Paid farmers from Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 farmers	amod
2	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Britain	case
4	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 farmers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle							vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Machines that did all the work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 work	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 work	det
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Machines	all work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The forced labour of enslaved Africans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 labour	det
2	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 labour	amod
3	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Africans	case
5	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Africans	amod
6	Africans	African	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 labour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	participle							vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	enslave	participle							vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Sugar that grew wild with no work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 work	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 work	det
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Sugar					with no work; wild property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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