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title: Identify the nation in which the Industrial Revolution commenced, ci… — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the nation in which the Industrial Revolution commenced, circa seventeen hundred and sixty. Exam question 1 of lesson 30 «The Industrial Revolution» 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 
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# Exam question 1 · The Industrial Revolution

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Identify the nation in which the Industrial Revolution commenced, circa seventeen hundred and sixty.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Industrial Revolution · **What happens:** identify, commence · **To what, where:** nation, seventeen hundred

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 30 «The Industrial Revolution» 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/30-the-industrial-revolution/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:e1:1
# text = Identify the nation in which the Industrial Revolution commenced, circa seventeen hundred and sixty.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Industrial	industrial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Revolution	Revolution	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	commenced	commence	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	circa	circa	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 nation |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nation=Theme |
| 2 | **commence** | past | the Industrial Revolution | seventeen hundred |  | the nation |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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China

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:e1:o1:1
# text = China
1	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Great Britain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:e1:o2:1
# text = Great Britain
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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France

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:e1:o3:1
# text = France
1	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The United States

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:e1:o4:1
# text = The United States
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	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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