--- title: A boy from a Balkan village is taken away and trained as a Janissary… — Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterra… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy from a Balkan village is taken away and trained as a Janissary. Which system is this? 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Which system is this? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** take away, train, be · **To what, where:** boy, this This is test 8 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A boy from a Balkan village is taken away and trained as a Janissary. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t8:1 # text = A boy from a Balkan village is taken away and trained as a Janissary. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Balkan Balkan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Janissary Janissary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take away** | present · passive | | a boy from a Balkan village | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **train** | participle | | | | | | as a Janissary | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as janissary=Attribute | 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 system is this? ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t8:2 # text = Which system is this? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | this | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The Commonwealth ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t8:o1:1 # text = The Commonwealth 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Commonwealth Commonwealth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The devshirme ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t8:o2:1 # text = The devshirme 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 devshirme devshirme NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The encomienda ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t8:o3:1 # text = The encomienda 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 encomienda encomienda NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Serfdom ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean:t8:o4:1 # text = Serfdom 1 Serfdom serfdom NOUN NN 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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