--- title: Ascertain the approximate number of Africans forcibly transported ac… — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the approximate number of Africans forcibly transported across the Atlantic between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Slavery and its abolition» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Slavery and its abolition](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Slavery and its abolition Ascertain the approximate number of Africans forcibly transported across the Atlantic between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, transport · **To what, where:** approximate number, Atlantic This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Slavery and its abolition» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:e1:1 # text = Ascertain the approximate number of Africans forcibly transported across the Atlantic between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 approximate approximate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Africans African PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 7 forcibly forcibly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 transported transport VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 across across ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Atlantic Atlantic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 between between ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 sixteenth sixteenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 nineteenth nineteenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the approximate number | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **transport** | participle | | the approximate number *not said here* | | the Atlantic | century | of Africans; forcibly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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} One billion ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:e1:o1:1 # text = One billion 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Twelve thousand ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:e1:o2:1 # text = Twelve thousand 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Twelve million ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:e1:o3:1 # text = Twelve million 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} One hundred thousand ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:e1:o4:1 # text = One hundred thousand 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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