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title: Identify the first state to be established as a free Black republic,… — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the first state to be established as a free Black republic, in eighteen hundred and four. Exam question 2 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 of each option; Mova's choice was ri
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# Exam question 2 · Slavery and its abolition

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Identify the first state to be established as a free Black republic, in eighteen hundred and four.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, establish · **To what, where:** first state, eighteen hundred

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:e2:1
# text = Identify the first state to be established as a free Black republic, in eighteen hundred and four.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	_
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the first state |  | eighteen hundred |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent state=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* | the first state *not said here* |  |  |  | as a free Black republic | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» |

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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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Haiti

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:e2:o1:1
# text = Haiti
1	Haiti	Haiti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Jamaica

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:e2:o2:1
# text = Jamaica
1	Jamaica	Jamaica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Brazil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:e2:o3:1
# text = Brazil
1	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Liberia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:e2:o4:1
# text = Liberia
1	Liberia	Liberia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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