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title: Why does Martin Luther King Jr.'s way of protest still inspire people? — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does Martin Luther King Jr.'s way of protest still inspire people? Test 5 · ★ 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 5 · ★ · Slavery and its abolition

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Why does Martin Luther King Jr.'s way of protest still inspire people?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** way · **What happens:** be, inspire · **To what, where:** people

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t5:1
# text = Why does Martin Luther King Jr.'s way of protest still inspire people?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Luther	Luther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
6	Jr.	Jr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	protest	protest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	inspire	inspire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Martin's way |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **inspire** | infinitive | Martin's way *not said here* | people |  |  | still | of protest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |

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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 {#o1}

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He wrote the first computer program for the government

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t5:o1:1
# text = He wrote the first computer program for the government
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	program	program	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | He | the first computer program |  |  |  | for the government | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent program=Result for government=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He won a war with tanks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t5:o2:1
# text = He won a war with tanks
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | He | a war |  |  |  | with tanks | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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He used peaceful marches and powerful words

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t5:o3:1
# text = He used peaceful marches and powerful words
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	marches	march	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | He | peaceful marches and powerful words |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent march=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He became a king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t5:o4:1
# text = He became a king
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | He | a king |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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