Test 2 · ★★★ · Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rig…

«slavery ended 1865 done» says Ethan's mate. What would Ethan say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: slavery, mate, Ethan · What happens: end, say · To what, where: 1865 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 69 «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» 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: «slavery ended 1865 done» says Ethan's mate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 ended	punct
2	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ended	nsubj
3	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
4	1865	1865	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 ended	obj
5	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ended	xcomp
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mate	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Ethan	case
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end in a quote	past	slavery	1865				done property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality 1865=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Ethan's mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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.

Sentence 2: What would Ethan say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	Ethan						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, correct: it ended everywhere in the world on the very same day

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 correct	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	correct	correct	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 ended	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ended	nsubj
6	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 correct	ccomp
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 ended	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ended	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 day	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 same	advmod
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	correct speech: disagree	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	end	past	it			the world	day	everywhere property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Nah, slavery never really existed in the first place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 existed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 existed	nsubj:pass
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 existed	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 existed	advmod
6	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 place	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 place	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 place	amod
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 existed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	participle · passive		slavery		the first place			tree rules

Option 3

Nah, it actually ended back in 1066, with the Normans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ended	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ended	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 ended	advmod
5	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 ended	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1066	case
8	1066	1066	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 ended	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Normans	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 Normans	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Normans	det
12	Normans	Norman	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end back	past	it			1066		with the Normans; actually property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with norman=Subeventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not everywhere; it ended at different times and forced labour still exists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 everywhere	advmod
2	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 ended	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ended	nsubj
5	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 everywhere	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 times	case
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ended	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 labour	cc
10	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 labour	amod
11	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	conj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 exists	advmod
13	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 everywhere	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	end	past	it	time	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	force	participle			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	exist	present		still	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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