Test 2 · ★ · Slavery and its abolition

Why did Britain's sugar boycott put pressure on slave owners?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sugar boycott, Britain · What happens: do, put, boycott · To what, where: sugar boycott, pressure, slave owners

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 boycott	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Britain	case
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boycott	compound
6	boycott	boycott	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 boycott	acl
8	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 owners	case
10	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 owners	compound
11	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past		Britain's sugar boycott		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boycott=Eventuality
2	put	participle	Britain's sugar boycott not said here	pressure	slave owners	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme on owner=Destination
3	boycott		Britain			nom boycott «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

It made sugar sweeter

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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	sugar				sweet property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sugar=Product

Option 2

Sugar became illegal everywhere in the world at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 became	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 became	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Sugar					in the world result; everywhere, illegal property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in world=Result

Option 3

It had no effect on anyone

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 effect	det
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 anyone	case
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	no effect		anyone			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fewer people bought their sugar, so they earned less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bought	nsubj
3	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sugar	nmod:poss
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 earned	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 earned	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 earned	nsubj
9	earned	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bought	conj
10	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 earned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	Fewer people	people's sugar					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme
2	earn	past	people					less property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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