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# Test 11 · ★ · Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew

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A history card says Irish Catholics owned most land in Ireland by 1750. Is it right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** history card, Irish Catholics, land · **What happens:** say, own, be · **To what, where:** most land, Ireland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 34 «Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew» 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/34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A history card says Irish Catholics owned most land in Ireland by 1750.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t11:1
# text = A history card says Irish Catholics owned most land in Ireland by 1750.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1750	1750	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a history card |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **own** | past | Irish Catholics | most land |  | Ireland |  | by 1750 | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Is it right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t11:2
# text = Is it right?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | land |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, settlers never came

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t11:o1:1
# text = Yes, settlers never came
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	settlers	settler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come** | past | settlers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No, by then Catholics owned only a small share

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t11:o2:1
# text = No, by then Catholics owned only a small share
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
5	Catholics	Catholic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past | Catholics | a small share |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot share=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, the English gave them extra land as a reward for loyalty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t11:o3:1
# text = Yes, the English gave them extra land as a reward for loyalty
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the English | extra land | them *= they* |  |  | as a reward for loyalty | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient land=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, the French owned it all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t11:o4:1
# text = No, the French owned it all
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past | the French | it |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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