Test 8 · ★ · The Atlantic routes and the slave trade

Why do so many Brazilians have African ancestors?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many Brazilians · What happens: have · To what, where: African ancestors

This is test 8 · ★ 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	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 many	aux
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Brazilians	amod
5	Brazilians	Brazilian	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ancestors	amod
8	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	many Brazilians	African ancestors					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ancestor=Patient

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 right answer

Brazil received more enslaved Africans than anywhere else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 received	nsubj
2	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 enslaved	advmod
4	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Africans	amod
5	Africans	African	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 received	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 anywhere	case
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 received	advmod
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 anywhere	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past	Brazil	enslaved Africans				anywhere property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent african=Theme
2	enslave	participle							vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Most Africans moved there by choice in the 1950s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 Africans	amod
2	Africans	African	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 moved	nsubj
3	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 moved	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 choice	case
6	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moved	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 1950s	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 1950s	det
9	1950s	1950	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	3 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	Most Africans			the 1950s; there		by choice	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme by choice=Source in 1950=Trajectory

Option 3

Brazil was ruled by African kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ruled	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ruled	aux:pass
3	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 kings	case
5	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kings	amod
6	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ruled	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past · passive	African kings	Brazil					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result

Option 4

Brazil is joined to Africa by land, so people walked there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 joined	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 joined	aux:pass
3	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Africa	case
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 joined	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 land	case
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 joined	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walked	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 walked	advmod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 walked	nsubj
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 joined	conj
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	present · passive	land	Brazil	Africa				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to africa=Co-Patient
2	walk	past	people			there			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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