Test 9 · ★ · Slavery and its abolition

Why did the words Am I not a man and a brother move so many people?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: words · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	13 move	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 move	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 move	nsubj
5	Am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 move	cop
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 move	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 man	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 I	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brother	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 brother	det
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	conj
13	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 move	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 move	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · do-support	the words					move 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They asked people to see the enslaved person as an equal human

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 asked	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 person	det
7	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 person	amod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 human	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 human	det
11	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 human	amod
12	human	human	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	They		people		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	the enslaved person		as a equal human	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus as human=Attribute
3	enslave	participle					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They were a song about football

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	4 song	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 song	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 football	case
6	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 song	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	a song				about football	tree rules

Option 3

They advertised sugar

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 advertised	nsubj
2	advertised	advertise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 advertised	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	advertise	past	They	sugar					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sugar=Topic

Option 4

They were a funny joke

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	5 joke	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 joke	amod
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	a funny joke					tree rules

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