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title: When people get scared of a new disease and blame a whole group, wha… — The Black Death and the end of the Mid… · tree and pragmatics
description: When people get scared of a new disease and blame a whole group, what does history teach? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 7 · ★ · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages

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When people get scared of a new disease and blame a whole group, what does history teach?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** people, you, history · **What happens:** get, blame, teach · **To what, where:** whole group

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t7:1
# text = When people get scared of a new disease and blame a whole group, what does history teach?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	blame	blame	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | people |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **blame** | imperative | you *not said here* | a whole group |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · do-support | history | a whole group |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

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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 {#o1}

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Nothing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t7:o1:1
# text = Nothing at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is always the group's fault

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t7:o2:1
# text = It is always the group's fault
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the group's fault |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Fear can make people cruel to innocent neighbours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t7:o3:1
# text = Fear can make people cruel to innocent neighbours
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | Fear | people |  |  |  | cruel *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Blaming one group of people is a good way to stop a disease

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t7:o4:1
# text = Blaming one group of people is a good way to stop a disease
1	Blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | gerund |  | one group of people |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Blaming | a good way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive |  | a disease |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality disease=Eventuality |

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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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