Test 9 · ★ · The Atlantic routes and the slave trade
Britain paid £20 million when it ended slavery. Who got nothing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Britain, it · What happens: pay, end, get · To what, where: slavery, nothing
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Britain paid £20 million when it ended slavery.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 paid | nsubj |
| 2 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 2 paid | obj |
| 4 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 million | compound |
| 5 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 £ | nummod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 ended | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ended | nsubj |
| 8 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 paid | advcl |
| 9 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ended | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 paid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | Britain | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset | |||||
| 2 | end | past | it | slavery | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality slavery=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: Who got nothing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 got | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The slave owners
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 owners | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owners | compound |
| 3 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The ports of Liverpool and Bristol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ports | det |
| 2 | ports | port | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Liverpool | case |
| 4 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ports | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Bristol | cc |
| 6 | Bristol | Bristol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Liverpool | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The British government
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 government | det |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 government | amod |
| 3 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The people who had been enslaved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 enslaved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enslaved | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 enslaved | aux:pass |
| 6 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enslave | past · perfect · passive | the people | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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