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title: Ascertain the number of Maya books known to have survived their dest… — The Maya · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the number of Maya books known to have survived their destruction by Spanish clergy. Exam question 4 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 right.
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# Exam question 4 · The Maya

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Ascertain the number of Maya books known to have survived their destruction by Spanish clergy.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, books · **What happens:** ascertain, know, survive, destroy · **To what, where:** number, Maya books, destruction

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the number of Maya books known to have survived their destruction by Spanish clergy.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	survived	survive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	clergy	clergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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* | the number of Maya books |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | Maya books *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **survive** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | books's destruction |  |  |  | by Spanish clergy | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme destruction=Circumstance |
| 4 | **destroy** |  | books *= book* |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:e4:o1:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Four hundred

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:e4:o2:1
# text = Four hundred
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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None

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:e4:o3:1
# text = None
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Forty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:e4:o4:1
# text = Forty
1	Forty	forty	NOUN	NN	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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