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Test 8 · ★ · Slavery and its abolition

Many European port cities grew rich in the 1700s. What is an uncomfortable part of that story?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Many European port cities · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: uncomfortable part

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Many European port cities grew rich in the 1700s.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cities	amod
2	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cities	amod
3	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cities	compound
4	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 1700s	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 1700s	det
9	1700s	1700	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	6 rich	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Many European port cities					rich property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: What is an uncomfortable part of that story?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 part	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 part	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 story	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 part	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a uncomfortable part				of that story	tree rules

The options

Option 1

They were paid by the Moon

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	3 paid	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moon	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive	the Moon	They					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Some of the money came from the slave trade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 came	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 money	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 money	det
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Some	nmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 trade	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trade	det
8	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trade	compound
9	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Some			the slave trade			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from trade=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They found gold under the streets of the city long ago

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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 streets	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 streets	det
6	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 streets	nmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 ago	advmod
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	They	gold		the streets of the city		ago property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic

Option 4

It is not uncomfortable at all

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	4 uncomfortable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 uncomfortable	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 uncomfortable	advmod
4	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 uncomfortable	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It			all		uncomfortable 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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