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title: Identify the region inhabited by the Maya civilisation. — The Maya · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the region inhabited by the Maya civilisation. Exam question 1 of lesson 18 «The Maya» of the history 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 1 · The Maya

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Identify the region inhabited by the Maya civilisation.

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

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 18 «The Maya» 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/18-the-maya/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:e1:1
# text = Identify the region inhabited by the Maya civilisation.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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 region |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent region=Theme |
| 2 | **inhabit** | participle |  | the region *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Maya civilisation | tree rules |

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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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The Andes of Peru

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:e1:o1:1
# text = The Andes of Peru
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Andes	Ande	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Peru	Peru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The valley of the Nile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:e1:o2:1
# text = The valley of the Nile
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Great Plains of North America, beside the Mississippi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:e1:o3:1
# text = The Great Plains of North America, beside the Mississippi
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Plains	Plain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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Southern Mexico and Central America

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:e1:o4:1
# text = Southern Mexico and Central America
1	Southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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