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description: State the year in which serfdom was abolished within the Russian Empire. Exam question 2 of lesson 34 «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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
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# Exam question 2 · Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew

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State the year in which serfdom was abolished within the Russian Empire.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** abolish · **To what, where:** State

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 34 «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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/34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:e2:1
# text = State the year in which serfdom was abolished within the Russian Empire.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	serfdom	serfdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abolish** | past · passive |  | State  the year in which serfdom |  |  |  | within the Russian Empire | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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1789

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:e2:o1:1
# text = 1789
1	1789	1789	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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1707

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:e2:o2:1
# text = 1707
1	1707	1707	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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1480

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:e2:o3:1
# text = 1480
1	1480	1480	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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1861

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:e2:o4:1
# text = 1861
1	1861	1861	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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