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title: Ascertain the official languages of Canada. — Canada: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the official languages of Canada. Exam question 3 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 3 · Canada: a short story

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Ascertain the official languages of Canada.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain · **To what, where:** official languages

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the official languages of Canada.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	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* | the official languages of Canada |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic |

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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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French and Spanish together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:e3:o1:1
# text = French and Spanish together
1	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

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

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English and French

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:e3:o2:1
# text = English and French
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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English and Latin equally

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:e3:o3:1
# text = English and Latin equally
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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English alone, everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:39-canada-a-short-story:e3:o4:1
# text = English alone, everywhere
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	1	advmod	_	_
```

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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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