Exam question 2 · What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religion…

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the labour employed upon the sugar plantations of the Caribbean from the sixteenth century?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: labour · What happens: follow, characteris, employ

This is exam question 2 of lesson 71 «What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 labour	det
10	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 employed	nsubj
11	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 characterises	ccomp
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 plantations	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 plantations	det
14	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plantations	compound
15	plantations	plantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 employed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Caribbean	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Caribbean	det
18	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 plantations	nmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 century	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 century	det
21	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 century	amod
22	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 employed	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present			of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	employ	past	the labour	century	upon the sugar plantations of the Caribbean	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

It was performed principally by enslaved Africans

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	3 performed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 performed	aux:pass
3	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	principally	principally	ADV	_	3 performed	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Africans	case
6	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Africans	amod
7	Africans	African	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 performed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	past · passive	enslaved Africans	It				principally property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	enslave	participle							vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It was performed principally by monastic orders

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	3 performed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 performed	aux:pass
3	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	principally	principally	ADV	_	3 performed	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 orders	case
6	monastic	monastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 orders	amod
7	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 performed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	past · passive	monastic orders	It				principally property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3

It was performed principally by machinery

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	3 performed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 performed	aux:pass
3	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	principally	principally	ADV	_	3 performed	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 machinery	case
6	machinery	machinery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 performed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	past · passive	machinery	It				principally property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

It was performed principally by salaried European farmers

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	3 performed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 performed	aux:pass
3	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	principally	principally	ADV	_	3 performed	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 farmers	case
6	salaried	salary	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 farmers	amod
7	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 farmers	amod
8	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 performed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	past · passive	salaried European farmers	It				principally property	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	salary	participle							tree rules

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