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title: Why was the Haitian Revolution so important in world history? — Latin America and the Caribbean · tree and pragmatics
description: Why was the Haitian Revolution so important in world history? Test 6 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Latin America and the Caribbean

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Why was the Haitian Revolution so important in world history?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Haitian Revolution · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** world history

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t6:1
# text = Why was the Haitian Revolution so important in world history?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Haitian	haitian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Haitian Revolution |  |  | world history |  | important *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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It was the first war fought with ships

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t6:o1:1
# text = It was the first war fought with ships
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | the first war |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** | past | the first war |  |  |  |  | with ships | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ship=Co-Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Enslaved people won their freedom and founded the first independent Black republic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t6:o2:1
# text = Enslaved people won their freedom and founded the first independent Black republic
1	Enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
10	independent	independent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enslave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **win** | past | Enslaved people | people's freedom |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Eventuality |
| 3 | **found** | past | Enslaved people *not said here* | the first independent Black republic |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It ended slavery everywhere at once, in every country of the world, in the same year

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t6:o3:1
# text = It ended slavery everywhere at once, in every country of the world, in the same year
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | It | slavery |  | every country of the world | year | everywhere *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality slavery=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It made Haiti a French colony again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean:t6:o4:1
# text = It made Haiti a French colony again
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | It | a French colony | Haiti |  | again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset haiti=Beneficiary colony=Product |

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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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