--- title: Ascertain the date upon which the Declaration of Independence was ad… — The United States: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the date upon which the Declaration of Independence was adopted. Exam question 3 of lesson 38 «The United States: a short story» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [The United States: a short story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · The United States: a short story Ascertain the date upon which the Declaration of Independence was adopted. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, adopt · **To what, where:** date, Declaration This is exam question 3 of lesson 38 «The United States: a short story» 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/38-the-united-states-a-short-story/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:e3:1 # text = Ascertain the date upon which the Declaration of Independence was adopted. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 upon upon ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Declaration Declaration PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Independence Independence PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 adopted adopt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the date | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic | | 2 | **adopt** | past · passive | | the Declaration of Independence | | | | upon the date | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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} The fourth of July, seventeen hundred and seventy-six ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:e3:o1:1 # text = The fourth of July, seventeen hundred and seventy-six 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fourth fourth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 seventeen seventeen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 7 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The twenty-fifth of December, sixteen hundred and twenty ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:e3:o2:1 # text = The twenty-fifth of December, sixteen hundred and twenty 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 fifth fifth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 compound _ _ 9 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The fourth of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-six ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:e3:o3:1 # text = The fourth of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-six 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fourth fourth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 7 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The first of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:38-the-united-states-a-short-story:e3:o4:1 # text = The first of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 first first NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 7 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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