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title: Ascertain the instrument regarded as the founding document of New Ze… — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Irelan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the instrument regarded as the founding document of New Zealand. Exam question 3 of lesson 10 «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Exam question 3 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

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Ascertain the instrument regarded as the founding document of New Zealand.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, regard, found, document · **To what, where:** instrument, New Zealand

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 10 «Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world» of the geography 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/geography/10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the instrument regarded as the founding document of New Zealand.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	founding	found	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	document	document	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 instrument |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Topic |
| 2 | **regard** | participle |  | the instrument *not said here* |  |  |  | as the founding document of New Zealand | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as document=Value |
| 3 | **found** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **document** |  |  | New Zealand |  |  |  |  | nom document «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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The Act of Union of 1707

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:e3:o1:1
# text = The Act of Union of 1707
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1707	1707	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Statute of Westminster of 1931

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:e3:o2:1
# text = The Statute of Westminster of 1931
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Statute	Statute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Westminster	Westminster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1931	1931	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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The Treaty of Waitangi of 1840

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:e3:o3:1
# text = The Treaty of Waitangi of 1840
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Waitangi	Waitangi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1840	1840	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Treaty of Paris of 1783

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:e3:o4:1
# text = The Treaty of Paris of 1783
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Treaty	Treaty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1783	1783	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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