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title: State the year from which Gibraltar has been held as a British terri… — Odd places: microstates, enclaves and… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the year from which Gibraltar has been held as a British territory. Exam question 4 of lesson 39 «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» 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 wa
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# Exam question 4 · Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands

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State the year from which Gibraltar has been held as a British territory.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** Gibraltar

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 39 «Odd places: microstates, enclaves and disputed lands» 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/39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:e4:1
# text = State the year from which Gibraltar has been held as a British territory.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present · perfect · passive |  | Gibraltar |  |  | from the year | as a British territory | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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1713

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:e4:o1:1
# text = 1713
1	1713	1713	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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1959

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:e4:o2:1
# text = 1959
1	1959	1959	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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1982

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:e4:o3:1
# text = 1982
1	1982	1982	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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1492

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:39-odd-places-microstates-enclaves-and-disputed-lands:e4:o4:1
# text = 1492
1	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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