Test 4 · ★ · Slavery and its abolition

Which is true about slavery in history?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 slavery	case
5	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 history	case
7	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slavery	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about slavery in history; true 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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It happened in many societies, and the Atlantic trade was one of the largest

The tree, 14 words

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 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 societies	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 societies	amod
5	societies	society	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happened	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 one	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trade	det
9	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 trade	compound
10	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 one	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 happened	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 largest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 largest	det
15	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It			many societies			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in society=Location
2	is a	past	the Atlantic trade	one				of the largest	tree rules

Option 2

Slavery was always legal and fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 legal	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 legal	advmod
4	legal	legal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fine	cc
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Slavery					always, legal property	tree rules
2	be		Slavery not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Only one country in the whole history of the world has ever had slavery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 country	nummod
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 history	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 history	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 history	amod
7	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 country	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 history	nmod
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 had	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 had	advmod
13	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	one country in the whole history of the world	slavery			ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slavery=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Slavery ended everywhere in 1492

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ended	nsubj
2	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 ended	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1492	case
5	1492	1492	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past	Slavery			1492		everywhere property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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