--- title: Mehmed II takes Constantinople in 1453. Which empire ends? — Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterra… · tree and pragmatics description: Mehmed II takes Constantinople in 1453. Which empire ends? Test 10 of lesson 32 «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» 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 was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterra…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/) / t10 # Test 10 · Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean Mehmed II takes Constantinople in 1453. Which empire ends? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mehmed, empire · **What happens:** take, end · **To what, where:** Constantinople, 1453 This is test 10 of lesson 32 «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. 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/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Mehmed II takes Constantinople in 1453. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t10:1 # text = Mehmed II takes Constantinople in 1453. 1 Mehmed Mehmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 II II NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 1 flat _ _ 3 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Constantinople Constantinople PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1453 1453 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | Mehmed | Constantinople | | 1453 | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent constantinople=Value in 1453=Location | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which empire ends? ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t10:2 # text = Which empire ends? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | present | which empire | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The Roman Republic ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t10:o1:1 # text = The Roman Republic 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Roman Roman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The Mughal Empire ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t10:o2:1 # text = The Mughal Empire 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Mughal mughal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The Republic of Genoa ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t10:o3:1 # text = The Republic of Genoa 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Republic Republic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Genoa Genoa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The Byzantine Empire ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t10:o4:1 # text = The Byzantine Empire 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Byzantine Byzantine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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