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description: Ascertain the approximate date and author of the oldest surviving photograph taken with a camera. Exam question 4 of lesson 20 «Photography and phone cameras» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Exam question 4 · Photography and phone cameras

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Ascertain the approximate date and author of the oldest surviving photograph taken with a camera.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, survive, take · **To what, where:** approximate date, oldest surviving photograph

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 20 «Photography and phone cameras» of the arts 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/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:20-photography-and-phone-cameras:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the approximate date and author of the oldest surviving photograph taken with a camera.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
10	surviving	survive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	photograph	photograph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the approximate date and author of the oldest surviving photograph |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic |
| 2 | **survive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | participle |  | the oldest surviving photograph *not said here* |  |  |  | with a camera | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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An unknown maker of mobile telephones, in the year 2007

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:20-photography-and-phone-cameras:e4:o1:1
# text = An unknown maker of mobile telephones, in the year 2007
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	mobile	mobile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	telephones	telephone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Andy Warhol, in New York, in the United States, in the 1960s

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:20-photography-and-phone-cameras:e4:o2:1
# text = Andy Warhol, in New York, in the United States, in the 1960s
1	Andy	Andy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Warhol	Warhol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	1960s	1960s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Nicéphore Niépce, in France, around 1826 or 1827

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:20-photography-and-phone-cameras:e4:o3:1
# text = Nicéphore Niépce, in France, around 1826 or 1827
1	Nicéphore	Nicéphore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Niépce	Niépce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1826	1826	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	1827	1827	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Leonardo da Vinci, in Florence, Italy, around the year 1500

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:20-photography-and-phone-cameras:e4:o4:1
# text = Leonardo da Vinci, in Florence, Italy, around the year 1500
1	Leonardo	Leonardo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	da	Da	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Vinci	Vinci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Florence	Florence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
13	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
```

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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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