--- title: Ascertain the years in which Hong Kong and Macau were respectively r… — How empires fell: the map of the 20th… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the years in which Hong Kong and Macau were respectively restored to China. Exam question 4 of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [How empires fell: the map of the 20th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century Ascertain the years in which Hong Kong and Macau were respectively restored to China. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, restore · **To what, where:** Hong, China This is exam question 4 of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the years in which Hong Kong and Macau were respectively restored to China. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 obl _ _ 6 Hong Hong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 Kong Kong PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 Macau Macau PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 respectively respectively ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 restored restore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | year | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **restore** | past · passive | | Hong and Macau | China | | in the years | respectively *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to china=Recipient | 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} 1810 and 1825 ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:e4:o1:1 # text = 1810 and 1825 1 1810 1810 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 1825 1825 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 1997 and 1999 ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:e4:o2:1 # text = 1997 and 1999 1 1997 1997 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 1999 1999 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 1947 and 1960 ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:e4:o3:1 # text = 1947 and 1960 1 1947 1947 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 1960 1960 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 1922 and 1923 ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:e4:o4:1 # text = 1922 and 1923 1 1922 1922 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 1923 1923 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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