Test 1 · ★ · Slavery and its abolition

dude in the comments says enslaved people just sat there and accepted it. rubbish?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dude, enslaved people · What happens: say, enslave, sit, accept · To what, where: dude · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 31 «Slavery and its abolition» of the history 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 comments	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 comments	det
4	comments	comment	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dude	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 sat	advmod
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 sat	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 accepted	cc
12	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 accepted	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
15	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	dude in the comments			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	enslave	participle				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	enslaved people		there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	accept	past	enslaved people not said here	dude		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

True, they liked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 liked	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	they	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 2

Rubbish, they all went home at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rubbish	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they	Rubbish				home property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Rubbish, they resisted, escaped and even won a revolution in Haiti

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 escaped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rubbish	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 resisted	nsubj
4	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Rubbish	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rubbish	punct
6	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 won	cc
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 won	advmod
9	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 escaped	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 revolution	det
11	revolution	revolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 won	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Haiti	case
13	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 won	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	resist	past	they	Rubbish not said here		tree rules
2	escape	past	Rubbish			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	win	past	Rubbish not said here	a revolution	Haiti	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revolution=Eventuality

Option 4

True, they never resisted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 resisted	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 resisted	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 resisted	advmod
5	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not resist	past	they						tree rules

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