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description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Holocaust? Exam question 2 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 2 · The Second World War

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Holocaust?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, characteris · **To what, where:** Holocaust

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:e2:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the Holocaust?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Holocaust	Holocaust	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | the Holocaust |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A naval engagement in the Pacific Ocean

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:e2:o1:1
# text = A naval engagement in the Pacific Ocean
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	naval	naval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	engagement	engagement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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An economic crisis of the nineteen-thirties

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:e2:o2:1
# text = An economic crisis of the nineteen-thirties
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	economic	economic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	thirties	thirty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The evacuation of British children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:e2:o3:1
# text = The evacuation of British children
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	evacuation	evacuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **evacuate** |  |  | British children |  |  |  |  | nom evacuation «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The murder by the Nazi regime of approximately six million Jews and many others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:34-the-second-world-war:e2:o4:1
# text = The murder by the Nazi regime of approximately six million Jews and many others
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Nazi	Nazi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	regime	regime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **murder** |  | the Nazi regime of million Jews |  |  |  |  |  | nom murder «act transitive»: by=agent |

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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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