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# Test 7 · ★ · Muscovy, England and France: how the big powers grew

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Peter the Great's new capital was built on marshy land. Who paid the price?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** build, pay · **To what, where:** new capital, marshy land, price

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Peter the Great's new capital was built on marshy land.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t7:1
# text = Peter the Great's new capital was built on marshy land.
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	marshy	marshy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | Peter's new capital |  | marshy land |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on land=Source |

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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:* Who paid the price?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t7:2
# text = Who paid the price?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past |  | the price |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nobody, because paid engineers from Holland built it with machines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t7:o1:1
# text = Nobody, because paid engineers from Holland built it with machines
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	engineers	engineer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Holland	Holland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **build** | past | Nobody | it |  |  |  | with machines | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme with machine=Source |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Tens of thousands of forced labourers, many of whom died

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t7:o2:1
# text = Tens of thousands of forced labourers, many of whom died
1	Tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	labourers	labourer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nmod	_	_
11	died	die	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 | **force** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** | past | Tens of thousands of forced labourers |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Merchants from Venice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t7:o3:1
# text = Merchants from Venice
1	Merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only the Tsar's own family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:34-muscovy-england-and-france-how-the-big-powers-grew:t7:o4:1
# text = Only the Tsar's own family
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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