--- title: Ascertain the year in which the Byzantine Empire, successor to the e… — Rome: the fall of the West and what Ro… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the year in which the Byzantine Empire, successor to the eastern Roman Empire, came to an end. Exam question 3 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/e3/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Rome: the fall of the West and what Ro…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us Ascertain the year in which the Byzantine Empire, successor to the eastern Roman Empire, came to an end. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Byzantine Empire · **What happens:** ascertain, come · **To what, where:** end This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:e3:1 # text = Ascertain the year in which the Byzantine Empire, successor to the eastern Roman Empire, came to an end. 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 17 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Byzantine Byzantine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 successor successor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 Roman Roman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 17 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | **come** | past | the Byzantine Empire | | | | to a end; in the year | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_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} 476 ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:e3:o1:1 # text = 476 1 476 476 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 410 ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:e3:o2:1 # text = 410 1 410 410 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 1066 ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:e3:o3:1 # text = 1066 1 1066 1066 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} 1453 ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us:e3:o4:1 # text = 1453 1 1453 1453 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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