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title: Identify the continent which is established as the original home of… — The first people: hunters, gatherers a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the continent which is established as the original home of anatomically modern humans. Exam question 1 of lesson 1 «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Exam question 1 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters

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Identify the continent which is established as the original home of anatomically modern humans.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, establish · **To what, where:** continent

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1 «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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/history/1-the-first-people/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:e1:1
# text = Identify the continent which is established as the original home of anatomically modern humans.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	anatomically	anatomically	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	humans	human	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the continent |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent continent=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | present · passive |  | the continent |  |  |  | as the original home of modern humans | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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South America

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:e1:o1:1
# text = South America
1	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	America	America	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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Europe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:e1:o2:1
# text = Europe
1	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Antarctica

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:e1:o3:1
# text = Antarctica
1	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Africa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:e1:o4:1
# text = Africa
1	Africa	Africa	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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