Test 5 · ★ · The Atlantic routes and the slave trade
The game ends in 1836. Was slavery over everywhere by then?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: game · What happens: end, be · To what, where: 1836
This is test 5 · ★ 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: The game ends in 1836.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | nsubj |
| 3 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1836 | case |
| 5 | 1836 | 1836 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 ends | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | the game | 1836 | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: Was slavery over everywhere by then?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 everywhere | cop |
| 2 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Was | nsubj |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 everywhere | case |
| 4 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 everywhere | fixed |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 everywhere | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 everywhere | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | then | everywhere property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes, Haiti ended it for the whole world
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 ended | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Haiti | Haiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ended | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 world | amod |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ended | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | Haiti | it | for the whole world | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
Option 2
No, it never ended anywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 ended | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 ended | advmod |
| 5 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 ended | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not end | past | it | anywhere property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it lasted in the USA until 1865 and Brazil until 1888
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 lasted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lasted | nsubj |
| 4 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 USA | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 USA | det |
| 7 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lasted | obl |
| 8 | until | until | ADP | _ | 9 1865 | case |
| 9 | 1865 | 1865 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 lasted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Brazil | cc |
| 11 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lasted | conj |
| 12 | until | until | ADP | _ | 13 1888 | case |
| 13 | 1888 | 1888 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 lasted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | it | the USA | until 1865; until 1888 | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, it ended everywhere in 1807, when Britain banned the trade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 ended | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ended | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 banned | advcl |
| 5 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 ended | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1807 | case |
| 7 | 1807 | 1807 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 ended | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 banned | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 banned | advmod |
| 10 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 banned | nsubj |
| 11 | banned | ban | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trade | det |
| 13 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 banned | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | it | 1807 | everywhere property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ban | past | Britain | the trade | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer trade=Theme |
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