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title: Two hundred years of paying tribute to the Mongols. Which lands did… — The Mongols · tree and pragmatics
description: Two hundred years of paying tribute to the Mongols. Which lands did this happen to? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 23 «The Mongols» 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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# Test 8 · ★★ · The Mongols

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Two hundred years of paying tribute to the Mongols. Which lands did this happen to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** hundred years, this · **What happens:** pay, land, happen · **To what, where:** tribute

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 23 «The Mongols» of the history course of Mova's primary school. 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/23-the-mongols/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Two hundred years of paying tribute to the Mongols.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:23-the-mongols:t8:1
# text = Two hundred years of paying tribute to the Mongols.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | gerund | hundred years *not said here* | tribute |  |  |  | to the Mongols | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Asset |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which lands did this happen to?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:23-the-mongols:t8:2
# text = Which lands did this happen to?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past · do-support | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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England and Wales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:23-the-mongols:t8:o1:1
# text = England and Wales
1	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Australia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:23-the-mongols:t8:o2:1
# text = Australia
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The lands of Rus, including around Kyiv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:23-the-mongols:t8:o3:1
# text = The lands of Rus, including around Kyiv
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Rus	Rus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | gerund | the lands of Rus *not said here* |  |  | Kyiv |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent around kyiv=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Inca Empire, high in the mountains of Peru

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:23-the-mongols:t8:o4:1
# text = The Inca Empire, high in the mountains of Peru
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Inca	Inca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Peru	Peru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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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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