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title: If you visited Beijing in 1500, who would be living in the Forbidden… — The Mughals, the Ming and the empires… · tree and pragmatics
description: If you visited Beijing in 1500, who would be living in the Forbidden City? Test 4 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 right.
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# Test 4 · The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia

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If you visited Beijing in 1500, who would be living in the Forbidden City?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** visit, live · **To what, where:** Beijing, 1500, Forbidden City

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This is test 4 of lesson 35 «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» 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/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:t4:1
# text = If you visited Beijing in 1500, who would be living in the Forbidden City?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Beijing	Beijing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1500	1500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Forbidden	Forbidden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | you | Beijing |  | 1500 |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beijing=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **live** | would · progressive |  |  |  | the Forbidden City |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=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 {#o1}

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Nobody, it was built in 1912

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:t4:o1:1
# text = Nobody, it was built in 1912
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1912	1912	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive |  | it |  | 1912 |  | Nobody *obl:unmarked* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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

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The Ming emperor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:t4:o2:1
# text = The Ming emperor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ming	Ming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	emperor	emperor	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 Qing emperor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:t4:o3:1
# text = The Qing emperor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Qing	Qing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Mughal emperor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:t4:o4:1
# text = The Mughal emperor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mughal	mughal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	emperor	emperor	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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