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title: State the approximate present number of Indigenous persons in the wo… — The people who were already there: wha… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the approximate present number of Indigenous persons in the world. Exam question 4 of lesson 36 «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» 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
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# Exam question 4 · The people who were already there: what colonisation did

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State the approximate present number of Indigenous persons in the world.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 36 «The people who were already there: what colonisation did» 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/36-the-people-who-were-already-there/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:e4:1
# text = State the approximate present number of Indigenous persons in the world.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Approximately four hundred and seventy-six thousand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:e4:o1:1
# text = Approximately four hundred and seventy-six thousand
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Approximately four hundred and seventy-six million

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:e4:o2:1
# text = Approximately four hundred and seventy-six million
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Approximately four billion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:e4:o3:1
# text = Approximately four billion
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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None whatsoever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:36-the-people-who-were-already-there:e4:o4:1
# text = None whatsoever
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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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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