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description: Ascertain which territory alone remained in English possession in France subsequent to 1453. Exam question 4 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 optio
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# Exam question 4 · Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew

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Ascertain which territory alone remained in English possession in France subsequent to 1453.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, territory · **What happens:** ascertain, remain · **To what, where:** English possession

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:e4:1
# text = Ascertain which territory alone remained in English possession in France subsequent to 1453.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	subsequent	subsequent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1453	1453	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **remain** | past | which territory |  |  | English possession in France subsequent |  | to 1453; alone *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in possession=Location |

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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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Gascony

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:e4:o1:1
# text = Gascony
1	Gascony	gascony	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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Brittany

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:e4:o2:1
# text = Brittany
1	Brittany	Brittany	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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Burgundy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:e4:o3:1
# text = Burgundy
1	Burgundy	burgundy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Calais

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:e4:o4:1
# text = Calais
1	Calais	Calais	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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