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Test 10 · ★ · Slavery and its abolition

After 1865 Black Americans were free. Why did they still need the civil rights movement?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: 1865 Black Americans, Americans · What happens: be, do, need · To what, where: rights movement

This is test 10 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: After 1865 Black Americans were free.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	2 1865	case
2	1865	1865	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Americans	nummod
3	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Americans	amod
4	Americans	American	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 free	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 free	cop
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 free	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	1865 Black Americans					free property	tree rules

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: Why did they still need the civil rights movement?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 need	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 movement	det
7	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rights	amod
8	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 movement	compound
9	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	need	present	Americans = american	the rights movement			still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot movement=Theme

The options

Option 1

Everything was already equal, so there was nothing left to change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 equal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 equal	cop
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 equal	advmod
4	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 was	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 equal	parataxis
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 was	nsubj
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 nothing	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 change	mark
12	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 left	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Everything					equal property	tree rules
2	be	past	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	change	to-infinitive							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Unfair laws still kept them apart and stopped many from voting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 laws	amod
2	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	apart	apart	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stopped	cc
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stopped	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 voting	case
11	voting	voting	NOUN	_	8 stopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Unfair laws	them = they			still	apart property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	stop	past	Unfair laws not said here	many		voting			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer many=Beneficiary from voting=Eventuality

Option 3

They wanted to bring slavery back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 bring	mark
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	bring back not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	slavery					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent slavery=Theme

Option 4

Nobody ever needed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 needed	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 needed	advmod
3	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	Nobody	it			ever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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