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title: Identify the person credited with the foundation of Al-Qarawiyyin in… — Learning through the ages: schools, un… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the person credited with the foundation of Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez in the year 859. Exam question 1 of lesson 64 «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 1 · Learning through the ages: schools, universities, librarie…

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Identify the person credited with the foundation of Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez in the year 859.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, credit · **To what, where:** person

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 64 «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:e1:1
# text = Identify the person credited with the foundation of Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez in the year 859.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	credited	credit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Qarawiyyin	Qarawiyyin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Fez	Fez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	859	859	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 person |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 2 | **credit** | participle |  | the person *not said here* |  |  | year | with the foundation of Al in Fez | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foundation=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Fatima al-Fihri

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:e1:o1:1
# text = Fatima al-Fihri
1	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Fihri	Fihri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Andrew Carnegie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:e1:o2:1
# text = Andrew Carnegie
1	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Carnegie	Carnegie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Denis Diderot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:e1:o3:1
# text = Denis Diderot
1	Denis	Denis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Diderot	Diderot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ibn al-Haytham

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:e1:o4:1
# text = Ibn al-Haytham
1	Ibn	Ibn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Haytham	Haytham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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