Exam question 2 · Slavery and its abolition

Identify the first state to be established as a free Black republic, in eighteen hundred and four.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, establish · To what, where: first state, eighteen hundred

This is exam question 2 of lesson 31 «Slavery and its abolition» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 state	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 state	amod
4	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 established	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 established	aux:pass
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 state	acl
8	as	as	ADP	_	12 republic	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 republic	det
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 republic	amod
11	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 republic	amod
12	republic	republic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 established	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hundred	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hundred	case
15	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hundred	compound
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Identify	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 four	cc
18	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hundred	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the first state		eighteen hundred			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent state=Theme
2	establish	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here	the first state not said here				as a free Black republic	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»

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

Haiti

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Jamaica

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jamaica	Jamaica	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Brazil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Liberia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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