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# Exam question 1 · The Aztecs and the Inca

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Identify the Spanish leader who in 1521 subdued Tenochtitlan with the assistance of numerous indigenous allies.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Spanish leader · **What happens:** identify, subdue, assist · **To what, where:** Spanish leader, Tenochtitlan, 1521, numerous indigenous allies

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 19 «The Aztecs and the Inca» 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/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:e1:1
# text = Identify the Spanish leader who in 1521 subdued Tenochtitlan with the assistance of numerous indigenous allies.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1521	1521	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
8	subdued	subdue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	Tenochtitlan	Tenochtitlan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	allies	ally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 Spanish leader |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent leader=Theme |
| 2 | **subdue** | past | the Spanish leader | Tenochtitlan |  | 1521 |  | with the assistance of numerous indigenous allies | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tenochtitlan=Patient with assistance=Instrument |
| 3 | **assist** |  |  | numerous indigenous allies |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «act transitive»: of=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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Ferdinand Magellan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:e1:o1:1
# text = Ferdinand Magellan
1	Ferdinand	Ferdinand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Magellan	Magellan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Christopher Columbus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:e1:o2:1
# text = Christopher Columbus
1	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Hernán Cortés

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:e1:o3:1
# text = Hernán Cortés
1	Hernán	Hernán	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Cortés	Cortés	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Francisco Pizarro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:e1:o4:1
# text = Francisco Pizarro
1	Francisco	Francisco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Pizarro	Pizarro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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