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description: Identify the emperor who in 313 granted Christians the liberty of worship and founded Constantinople. Exam question 1 of lesson 16 «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Exam question 1 · Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us

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Identify the emperor who in 313 granted Christians the liberty of worship and founded Constantinople.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, emperor · **What happens:** identify, grant, found · **To what, where:** emperor, liberty, Christians, 313, Constantinople

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 16 «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us» 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/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:e1:1
# text = Identify the emperor who in 313 granted Christians the liberty of worship and founded Constantinople.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	313	313	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
7	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 emperor |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme |
| 2 | **grant** | past | the emperor | the liberty of worship | Christians | 313 |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent christian=Goal liberty=Theme |
| 3 | **found** | past | the emperor *not said here* | Constantinople |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constantinople=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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Romulus Augustulus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:e1:o1:1
# text = Romulus Augustulus
1	Romulus	Romulus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Augustulus	Augustulus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Constantine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:e1:o2:1
# text = Constantine
1	Constantine	Constantine	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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Augustus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:e1:o3:1
# text = Augustus
1	Augustus	augustus	NOUN	NN	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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Justinian

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:e1:o4:1
# text = Justinian
1	Justinian	Justinian	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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