Exam question 4 · Slavery and its abolition

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the abolition of slavery throughout the United States.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, abolish · To what, where: response, abolition, slavery

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 abolition	det
11	abolition	abolition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 slavery	case
13	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 abolition	nmod
14	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	17 States	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 States	det
16	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 States	amod
17	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the abolition of slavery	throughout the United States		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus abolition=Experiencer
4	abolish			slavery			nom abolition «act transitive»: of=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

It was accomplished in seventeen hundred and seventy-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 accomplished	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 accomplished	aux:pass
3	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hundred	case
5	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 accomplished	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seventy	cc
8	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	conj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 seventy	punct
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accomplish	past · passive		It		seventeen hundred			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

It has never been accomplished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 accomplished	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 accomplished	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 accomplished	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 accomplished	aux:pass
5	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not accomplish	present · perfect · passive		It					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was accomplished in eighteen hundred and sixty-five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 accomplished	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 accomplished	aux:pass
3	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hundred	case
5	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 accomplished	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 five	cc
8	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 five	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sixty	punct
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accomplish	past · passive		It		eighteen hundred			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

It was accomplished in nineteen hundred and sixty-three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 accomplished	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 accomplished	aux:pass
3	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hundred	case
5	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 accomplished	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 three	cc
8	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 three	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sixty	punct
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accomplish	past · passive		It		nineteen hundred			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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