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description: Identify the modern states which regard Kyivan Rus as constituting part of their history. Exam question 2 of lesson 41 «Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus» 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 wron
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# Exam question 2 · Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus

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Identify the modern states which regard Kyivan Rus as constituting part of their history.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, modern states · **What happens:** identify, regard, constitute · **To what, where:** modern states, Kyivan, part

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 41 «Kyiv's beginnings and Kyivan Rus» 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/41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus:e2:1
# text = Identify the modern states which regard Kyivan Rus as constituting part of their history.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	regard	regard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	Kyivan	Kyivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Rus	Rus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	constituting	constitute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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* | the modern states |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent state=Theme |
| 2 | **regard** | present | the modern states | Kyivan |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kyivan=Theme |
| 3 | **constitute** | gerund | the modern states *not said here* | part of states's history |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Pivot |

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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 Russian Federation alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus:e2:o1:1
# text = The Russian Federation alone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	amod	_	_
3	Federation	Federation	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The kingdoms of Sweden and Norway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus:e2:o2:1
# text = The kingdoms of Sweden and Norway
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus:e2:o3:1
# text = Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania
1	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Lithuania	Lithuania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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Ukraine, Belarus and Russia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:41-kyivs-beginnings-and-kyivan-rus:e2:o4:1
# text = Ukraine, Belarus and Russia
1	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Belarus	Belarus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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