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title: Which is true about slavery in history? — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about slavery in history? Test 4 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Slavery and its abolition

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Which is true about slavery in history?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 31 «Slavery and its abolition» 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/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t4:1
# text = Which is true about slavery in history?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about slavery in history; true *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It happened in many societies, and the Atlantic trade was one of the largest

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t4:o1:1
# text = It happened in many societies, and the Atlantic trade was one of the largest
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	societies	society	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  | many societies |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in society=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Atlantic trade | one |  |  |  | of the largest | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Slavery was always legal and fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t4:o2:1
# text = Slavery was always legal and fine
1	Slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	legal	legal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Slavery |  |  |  |  | always, legal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Slavery *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only one country in the whole history of the world has ever had slavery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t4:o3:1
# text = Only one country in the whole history of the world has ever had slavery
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · perfect | one country in the whole history of the world | slavery |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slavery=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Slavery ended everywhere in 1492

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t4:o4:1
# text = Slavery ended everywhere in 1492
1	Slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | past | Slavery |  |  | 1492 |  | everywhere *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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