--- title: Ascertain the date upon which the United Kingdom withdrew from the E… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the date upon which the United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union, the referendum having been held in 2016. Exam question 4 of lesson 38 «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth/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/) / [Today's world: the UN, the EU and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth Ascertain the date upon which the United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union, the referendum having been held in 2016. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, United Kingdom, referendum · **What happens:** ascertain, withdraw, have, hold · **To what, where:** date, European Union, 2016 This is exam question 4 of lesson 38 «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» 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/38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the date upon which the United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union, the referendum having been held in 2016. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 upon upon ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 United United PROPN NNP _ 8 flat _ _ 8 Kingdom Kingdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 withdrew withdraw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 European European PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Union Union PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 referendum referendum NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 17 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 xcomp _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 2016 2016 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the date | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic | | 2 | **withdraw** | past | the United Kingdom | | | the European Union | | upon the date | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from union=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **have** | gerund | the referendum *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hold** | participle · passive | the referendum *not said here* | | | 2016 | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: in 2016=Location | 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} 2007 ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth:e4:o1:1 # text = 2007 1 2007 2007 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 2016 ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth:e4:o2:1 # text = 2016 1 2016 2016 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 1973 ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth:e4:o3:1 # text = 1973 1 1973 1973 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 2020 ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:38-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth:e4:o4:1 # text = 2020 1 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` 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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