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title: State the year in which the Federative Republic of Brazil abolished… — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics
description: State the year in which the Federative Republic of Brazil abolished slavery. Exam question 4 of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 4 · Latin America and the Caribbean

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State the year in which the Federative Republic of Brazil abolished slavery.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Federative Republic · **What happens:** abolish · **To what, where:** State

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:e4:1
# text = State the year in which the Federative Republic of Brazil abolished slavery.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Federative	federative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abolish** | past | the Federative Republic of Brazil | State  the year |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slavery=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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1888

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:e4:o1:1
# text = 1888
1	1888	1888	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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1822

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:e4:o2:1
# text = 1822
1	1822	1822	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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1865

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:e4:o3:1
# text = 1865
1	1865	1865	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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1960

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:e4:o4:1
# text = 1960
1	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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