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title: Ascertain the year in which Italy was constituted as a single state. — Europe: countries and capitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the year in which Italy was constituted as a single state. Exam question 3 of lesson 7 «Europe: countries and capitals» 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 3 · Europe: countries and capitals

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Ascertain the year in which Italy was constituted as a single state.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, constitute · **To what, where:** Italy

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 7 «Europe: countries and capitals» 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/7-europe-countries-and-capitals/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:7-europe-countries-and-capitals:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the year in which Italy was constituted as a single state.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	constituted	constitute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **constitute** | past · passive |  | Italy |  |  | in the year | as a single state | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |

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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 {#o1}

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Nineteen eighteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:7-europe-countries-and-capitals:e3:o1:1
# text = Nineteen eighteen
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Thirteen thirty-seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:7-europe-countries-and-capitals:e3:o2:1
# text = Thirteen thirty-seven
1	Thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Eighteen sixty-one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:7-europe-countries-and-capitals:e3:o3:1
# text = Eighteen sixty-one
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eighteen fifteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:7-europe-countries-and-capitals:e3:o4:1
# text = Eighteen fifteen
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
```

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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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