Duality for modules

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I'm doing exercises given in Maclane "Homology", and I have problems with the following exercise.

The task is to state the dual of this proposition:

"For submodules $S_t\subset B, \ t\in T$ the following conditions are equivalent:

$(i)$ The diagram $\{j_t: S_t\rightarrow B\}, j_t$ the injection, is universal for ends $S_t$,

$(ii)$ $B=\cup S_t$ and, for each $t_0\in T$, $S_{t_0}\cap (\bigcup\limits_{t\neq t_0}S_t)=0$."

Following Maclane, the dual of a submodule is a quotient module.

It's easy to state dual of the beginning:

"For quotient modules $B/S_t, t\in T$ the following conditions are equivalent:

$(i)$ The diagram $\{j_t: B\rightarrow S_t\}, j_t$ the surjection, is couniversal for ends $S_t$,

$(ii)$ ???"

But I can't get what's the dual of $(ii)$. Firstly, should I change "and" for "or", and "for each" for "exist"? Suppose, yes. Secondly, I see two ways to state the dual. In the first one I just change the module for its factor. So, $B$ is changed for $B/B=0$, $\cup S_t$ for $B/\cup S_t$. We get $0=B/\cup S_t$, which means $\cup S_t=B$ and nothing changed. The same thing for the second equality. So, we get:

1) $(ii)$ $B=\cup S_t$ or, there exists $t_0\in T$, such that $S_{t_0}\cap (\bigcup\limits_{t\neq t_0}S_t)=0$.

And here is the another obvious way:

2) $(ii)$ $0=\cap B/S_t$ or, there exists $t_0\in T$, such that $B/S_{t_0}\cup (\bigcap\limits_{t\neq t_0}B/S_t)=B$."

The question is: Is any of these variants correct? Or are they equivalent? Please, help.