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description: Identify the event commonly regarded as the immediate occasion of the First World War. Exam question 1 of lesson 33 «The First World War» 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 1 · The First World War

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Identify the event commonly regarded as the immediate occasion of the First World War.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, regard, occasion · **To what, where:** event, First World War

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 33 «The First World War» 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/33-the-first-world-war/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:e1:1
# text = Identify the event commonly regarded as the immediate occasion of the First World War.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
13	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 event |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent event=Theme |
| 2 | **regard** | participle |  | the event *not said here* |  |  |  | as the immediate occasion of the First World War; commonly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as occasion=Value |
| 3 | **occasion** |  |  | the First World War |  |  |  |  | nom occasion «event 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:e1:o1:1
# text = The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	assassination	assassination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Archduke	Archduke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Franz	Franz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Ferdinand	Ferdinand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Sarajevo	Sarajevo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assassinate** |  |  | Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo |  |  |  |  | nom assassination «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The sinking of the Titanic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:e1:o2:1
# text = The sinking of the Titanic
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sinking	sinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Titanic	Titanic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** |  | the Titanic |  |  |  |  |  | nom sinking «event intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The invasion of Poland by the armies of Germany and Russia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:e1:o3:1
# text = The invasion of Poland by the armies of Germany and Russia
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invade** |  | the armies of Germany and Russia | Poland |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The fall of Constantinople

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:e1:o4:1
# text = The fall of Constantinople
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	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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