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title: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning… — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Irelan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Great Famine in Ireland. Exam question 4 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 pragmatic
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# Exam question 4 · Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of th…

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Great Famine in Ireland.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, established facts · **What happens:** select, establish, concern · **To what, where:** response, Great Famine, Ireland

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:e4:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Great Famine in Ireland.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Famine	Famine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the established facts *not said here* | the Great Famine |  | Ireland |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus famine=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 {#o1}

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It occurred in the fourteenth century

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:e4:o1:1
# text = It occurred in the fourteenth century
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | past | It |  |  |  | century |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No deaths whatsoever were recorded

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:e4:o2:1
# text = No deaths whatsoever were recorded
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | past · passive |  | no deaths |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It increased the population of the island

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:e4:o3:1
# text = It increased the population of the island
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	population	population	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **increase** | past | It | the population of the island |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer population=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Approximately one million persons perished and over one million emigrated

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world:e4:o4:1
# text = Approximately one million persons perished and over one million emigrated
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
10	emigrated	emigrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | participle |  | million persons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **emigrate** | participle | one million |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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