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title: What would Rosa Parks staying seated on the bus show the world? — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics
description: What would Rosa Parks staying seated on the bus show the world? Test 6 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Slavery and its abolition

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What would Rosa Parks staying seated on the bus show the world?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Rosa · **What happens:** stay, seat, show · **To what, where:** bus, world

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t6:1
# text = What would Rosa Parks staying seated on the bus show the world?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
3	Rosa	Rosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	Parks	Parks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | gerund | Rosa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seat** | participle | Rosa *not said here* |  |  | the bus |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **show** | would | Rosa | the world |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient world=Topic |

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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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That unfair laws could be challenged peacefully

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t6:o1:1
# text = That unfair laws could be challenged peacefully
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **challenge** | could · passive |  | That |  |  |  | peacefully *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing important

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t6:o2:1
# text = Nothing important
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That buses were too full

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t6:o3:1
# text = That buses were too full
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that buses |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That she was very tired of standing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:31-slavery-and-its-abolition:t6:o4:1
# text = That she was very tired of standing
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	standing	standing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | That |  |  |  |  | of standing; tired *property* | tree rules |

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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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