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title: Ascertain the precise moment at which hostilities ceased in nineteen… — The First World War · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the precise moment at which hostilities ceased in nineteen hundred and eighteen. Exam question 2 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 2 · The First World War

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Ascertain the precise moment at which hostilities ceased in nineteen hundred and eighteen.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, hostilities · **What happens:** ascertain, cease · **To what, where:** nineteen hundred

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:e2:1
# text = Ascertain the precise moment at which hostilities ceased in nineteen hundred and eighteen.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	precise	precise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
7	hostilities	hostility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cease** | past | hostilities |  |  | nineteen hundred | at the precise moment |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «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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Midnight upon the first day of January

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:e2:o1:1
# text = Midnight upon the first day of January
1	Midnight	midnight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Noon upon Christmas Day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:e2:o2:1
# text = Noon upon Christmas Day
1	Noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:e2:o3:1
# text = The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	eleventh	eleventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	eleventh	eleventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	eleventh	eleventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The sixth hour of the sixth day of June

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:33-the-first-world-war:e2:o4:1
# text = The sixth hour of the sixth day of June
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	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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