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title: Which empire around 1920 covered about a quarter of the world's land? — How empires fell: the map of the 20th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which empire around 1920 covered about a quarter of the world's land? Test 11 · ★ 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 choice was right.
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# Test 11 · ★ · How empires fell: the map of the 20th century

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Which empire around 1920 covered about a quarter of the world's land?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** empire · **What happens:** cover · **To what, where:** quarter

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 37 «How empires fell: the map of the 20th century» 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/37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t11:1
# text = Which empire around 1920 covered about a quarter of the world's land?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past | which empire around 1920 | a quarter of the world's land |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quarter=Destination |

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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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The Ottoman Empire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t11:o1:1
# text = The Ottoman Empire
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Ottoman	Ottoman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	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 Spanish Empire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t11:o2:1
# text = The Spanish Empire
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The British Empire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t11:o3:1
# text = The British Empire
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	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 Empire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:37-how-empires-fell-the-map-of-the-20th-century:t11:o4:1
# text = The Mughal Empire
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mughal	mughal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	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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