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description: Identify the event which in September nineteen hundred and thirty-nine precipitated the Second World War. Exam question 1 of lesson 34 «The Second 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 
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# Exam question 1 · The Second World War

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Identify the event which in September nineteen hundred and thirty-nine precipitated the Second World War.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, precipitate · **To what, where:** event, Second World War

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 34 «The Second 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/34-the-second-world-war/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:e1:1
# text = Identify the event which in September nineteen hundred and thirty-nine precipitated the Second 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	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
13	precipitated	precipitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Second	Second	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
16	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **precipitate** | participle |  | the Second World War |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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The landing in Normandy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:e1:o1:1
# text = The landing in Normandy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Normandy	Normandy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:e1:o2:1
# text = The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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	_	_
```

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

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

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The German invasion of Poland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:e1:o3:1
# text = The German invasion of Poland
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The attack upon Pearl Harbor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:e1:o4:1
# text = The attack upon Pearl Harbor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Pearl	Pearl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Harbor	Harbor	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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