Test 6 · ★ · The Atlantic routes and the slave trade

Why were maroon communities often in mountains or forests?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: maroon communities, mountains

This is test 6 · ★ 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 communities	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 communities	cop
3	maroon	maroon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 communities	amod
4	communities	community	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	often	often	ADV	_	7 mountains	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 communities	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 forests	cc
9	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mountains	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 communities	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		maroon communities		mountains or forests			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

Mountains were warmer than the coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warmer	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 warmer	cop
3	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 coast	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coast	det
6	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warmer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mountains					than the coast; warm property	tree rules

Option 2

Owners sent them there on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sent	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Owners	them = they		purpose; there			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

The soil there was best for sugar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soil	det
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 best	nsubj
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 best	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 best	cop
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 sugar	case
7	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 best	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the soil			there		for sugar; good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Rough land was hard for soldiers to reach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 land	amod
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 soldiers	case
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hard	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reach	mark
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Rough land					for soldiers; hard property	tree rules
2	reach	to-infinitive	Rough land not said here						vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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