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title: Identify the dynasty which exercised sovereignty over China in 1337. — The Mughals, the Ming and the empires… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the dynasty which exercised sovereignty over China in 1337. Exam question 1 of lesson 35 «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia

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Identify the dynasty which exercised sovereignty over China in 1337.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, dynasty · **What happens:** identify, exercise · **To what, where:** dynasty, sovereignty, China

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 35 «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» 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/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:e1:1
# text = Identify the dynasty which exercised sovereignty over China in 1337.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	exercised	exercise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1337	1337	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the dynasty |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent dynasty=Theme |
| 2 | **exercise** | past | the dynasty | sovereignty |  | China |  | in 1337 | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereignty=Patient |

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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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The Qing dynasty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:e1:o1:1
# text = The Qing dynasty
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Qing	Qing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dynasty	dynasty	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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The Ming dynasty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:e1:o2:1
# text = The Ming dynasty
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dynasty	dynasty	NOUN	NN	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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The Mughal dynasty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:e1:o3:1
# text = The Mughal dynasty
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mughal	mughal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dynasty	dynasty	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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The Mongol Yuan dynasty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:e1:o4:1
# text = The Mongol Yuan dynasty
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Mongol	Mongol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Yuan	Yuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dynasty	dynasty	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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**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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