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title: bloody hell, a thousand years? How long did the Republic of Venice l… — Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterra… · tree and pragmatics
description: bloody hell, a thousand years? How long did the Republic of Venice last really Test 6 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.
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# Test 6 · Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean

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bloody hell, a thousand years? How long did the Republic of Venice last really

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Republic

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* bloody hell, a thousand years?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t6:1
# text = bloody hell, a thousand years?
1	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* How long did the Republic of Venice last really

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t6:2
# text = How long did the Republic of Venice last really
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Republic	Republic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Republic of Venice |  |  |  | long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About a hundred years, until 1500

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t6:o1:1
# text = About a hundred years, until 1500
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	until	until	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It still exists today as a republic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t6:o2:1
# text = It still exists today as a republic
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	republic	republic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | It |  |  |  | still; today | as a republic | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About a thousand years, until 1797

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t6:o3:1
# text = About a thousand years, until 1797
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	until	until	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1797	1797	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About fifty years, until 1453

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t6:o4:1
# text = About fifty years, until 1453
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	until	until	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1453	1453	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
```

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

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