--- title: Ascertain the year in which the Australian colonies were federated a… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the year in which the Australian colonies were federated as the Commonwealth of Australia. Exam question 3 of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: 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; Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-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/) / [Australia and New Zealand: a short story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Australia and New Zealand: a short story Ascertain the year in which the Australian colonies were federated as the Commonwealth of Australia. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, federate · **To what, where:** Australian colonies This is exam question 3 of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: 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/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:e3:1 # text = Ascertain the year in which the Australian colonies were federated as the Commonwealth of Australia. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 colonies colony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 federated federate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Commonwealth Commonwealth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | year | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **federate** | past · passive | | the Australian colonies | | | in the year | as the Commonwealth of Australia | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | 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} Nineteen hundred and fifteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:e3:o1:1 # text = Nineteen hundred and fifteen 1 Nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Seventeen hundred and eighty-eight ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:e3:o2:1 # text = Seventeen hundred and eighty-eight 1 Seventeen seventeen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 eighty eighty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Nineteen hundred and one ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:e3:o3:1 # text = Nineteen hundred and one 1 Nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Eighteen hundred and forty ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:e3:o4:1 # text = Eighteen hundred and forty 1 Eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 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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