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title: Identify the city which has served as the capital of the Republic of… — The Middle East and Central Asia · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the city which has served as the capital of the Republic of Turkey since the year 1923. Exam question 1 of lesson 12 «The Middle East and Central Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Exam question 1 · The Middle East and Central Asia

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Identify the city which has served as the capital of the Republic of Turkey since the year 1923.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, serve · **To what, where:** city

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 12 «The Middle East and Central Asia» 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/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:12-middle-east-and-central-asia:e1:1
# text = Identify the city which has served as the capital of the Republic of Turkey since the year 1923.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	since	since	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	1923	1923	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the city |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 2 | **serve** | present · perfect · passive |  | the city |  |  | year | as the capital of the Republic of Turkey | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as capital=Attribute |

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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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Ankara

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:12-middle-east-and-central-asia:e1:o1:1
# text = Ankara
1	Ankara	ankara	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Izmir

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:12-middle-east-and-central-asia:e1:o2:1
# text = Izmir
1	Izmir	Izmir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Istanbul

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:12-middle-east-and-central-asia:e1:o3:1
# text = Istanbul
1	Istanbul	Istanbul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bursa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:12-middle-east-and-central-asia:e1:o4:1
# text = Bursa
1	Bursa	Bursa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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