Test 3 · ★ · Slavery and its abolition

If the Underground Railroad had no trains or tracks, why was it called a railroad?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Underground Railroad · What happens: have, call · To what, where: trains, Railroad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Railroad	det
3	Underground	Underground	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Railroad	compound
4	Railroad	Railroad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 trains	det
7	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 tracks	cc
9	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trains	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 called	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 called	aux:pass
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	nsubj:pass
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 trains	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 railroad	det
16	railroad	railroad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 called	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Underground Railroad	no trains or tracks					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Patient
2	call	past · passive		Railroad					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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

Nobody knows any reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 reason	det
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody	any reason					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus

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

It used railway words in secret, like stations and conductors

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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	compound
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 secret	case
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stations	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 stations	case
9	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 conductors	cc
11	conductors	conductor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stations	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	It	railway words		secret		like stations and conductors	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

Option 3

It really was a long train that ran under the ground

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	6 train	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 train	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 train	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 train	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 train	amod
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 train	acl:relcl
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a long train					tree rules
2	run	past	a long train			the ground			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ground=Trajectory

Option 4

It was owned by a big railway company in New York

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 owned	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 owned	aux:pass
3	owned	own	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 company	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 company	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 company	amod
7	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 company	compound
8	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owned	obl:agent
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 York	case
10	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 York	flat
11	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 company	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past · passive	a big railway company in New York	It					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme

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