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title: Identify the event commemorated annually upon the first day of July… — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the event commemorated annually upon the first day of July in Canada. Exam question 1 of lesson 39 «Canada: 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Canada: a short story

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Identify the event commemorated annually upon the first day of July in Canada.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, event · **What happens:** identify, commemorate

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 39 «Canada: 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/39-canada-a-short-story/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:e1:1
# text = Identify the event commemorated annually upon the first day of July in Canada.
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	commemorated	commemorate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **commemorate** | past | the event |  |  |  | day | annually *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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The adoption of the maple leaf flag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:e1:o1:1
# text = The adoption of the maple leaf flag
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	maple	maple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adopt** |  |  | the leaf flag |  |  |  |  | nom adoption «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The Confederation of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:e1:o2:1
# text = The Confederation of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Confederation	confederation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Battle of the Plains of Abraham

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:e1:o3:1
# text = The Battle of the Plains of Abraham
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Plains	Plain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The founding of Québec in sixteen hundred and eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:e1:o4:1
# text = The founding of Québec in sixteen hundred and eight
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	founding	founding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Québec	Québec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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