--- title: Identify the scholar from whose name the term algorithm is derived. — The Islamic golden age and the wider m… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the scholar from whose name the term algorithm is derived. Exam question 1 of lesson 22 «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world/e1/) [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/) / [The Islamic golden age and the wider m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world Identify the scholar from whose name the term algorithm is derived. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, name · **What happens:** identify, derive · **To what, where:** scholar, name, term algorithm This is exam question 1 of lesson 22 «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» 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/22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:e1:1 # text = Identify the scholar from whose name the term algorithm is derived. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 scholar scholar NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 algorithm algorithm NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 derived derive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the scholar | | name | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent scholar=Theme | | 2 | **derive** | present · passive | name *not said here* | the term algorithm | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | 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} Mansa Musa ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:e1:o1:1 # text = Mansa Musa 1 Mansa Mansa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Musa Musa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Ibn Battuta ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:e1:o2:1 # text = Ibn Battuta 1 Ibn Ibn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Battuta Battuta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Al-Khwarizmi ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:e1:o3:1 # text = Al-Khwarizmi 1 Al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Khwarizmi Khwarizmi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Ibn Sina ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:e1:o4:1 # text = Ibn Sina 1 Ibn Ibn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Sina Sina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` 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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