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title: Britain paid £20 million when it ended slavery. Who got nothing? — The Atlantic routes and the slave trade · tree and pragmatics
description: Britain paid £20 million when it ended slavery. Who got nothing? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 30 «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» 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 9 · ★ · The Atlantic routes and the slave trade

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Britain paid £20 million when it ended slavery. Who got nothing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Britain, it · **What happens:** pay, end, get · **To what, where:** slavery, nothing

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 30 «The Atlantic routes and the slave trade» 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/30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Britain paid £20 million when it ended slavery.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade:t9:1
# text = Britain paid £20 million when it ended slavery.
1	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | Britain |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset |
| 2 | **end** | past | it | slavery |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality slavery=Eventuality |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Who got nothing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade:t9:2
# text = Who got nothing?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The slave owners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade:t9:o1:1
# text = The slave owners
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The ports of Liverpool and Bristol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade:t9:o2:1
# text = The ports of Liverpool and Bristol
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The British government

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade:t9:o3:1
# text = The British government
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The people who had been enslaved

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:30-the-atlantic-routes-and-the-slave-trade:t9:o4:1
# text = The people who had been enslaved
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enslave** | past · perfect · passive |  | the people |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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