Test 6 · ★ · Slavery and its abolition

What would Rosa Parks staying seated on the bus show the world?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rosa · What happens: stay, seat, show · To what, where: bus, world

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 show	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 show	aux
3	Rosa	Rosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 show	nsubj
4	Parks	Parks	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rosa	flat
5	staying	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Rosa	acl
6	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 staying	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bus	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bus	det
9	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seated	obl
10	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 show	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stay	gerund	Rosa not said here			tree rules
2	seat	participle	Rosa not said here		the bus	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
3	show	would	Rosa	the world		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient world=Topic

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That unfair laws could be challenged peacefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 challenged	nsubj
2	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 laws	amod
3	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 challenged	nsubj:pass
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 challenged	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 challenged	aux:pass
6	challenged	challenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	6 challenged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	challenge	could · passive		That				peacefully property	tree rules

Option 2

Nothing important

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

That buses were too full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 buses	det
2	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 full	advmod
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that buses					full property	tree rules

Option 4

That she was very tired of standing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 tired	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 tired	advmod
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 standing	case
7	standing	standing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					of standing; tired property	tree rules

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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