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title: Identify the assembly that convened from the year 930 and is account… — Who decides: kings, councils, republic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the assembly that convened from the year 930 and is accounted among the oldest of its kind. Exam question 2 of lesson 67 «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Exam question 2 · Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies

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Identify the assembly that convened from the year 930 and is accounted among the oldest of its kind.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, assembly · **What happens:** identify, convene, account · **To what, where:** assembly

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 67 «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» 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/67-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:67-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies:e2:1
# text = Identify the assembly that convened from the year 930 and is accounted among the oldest of its kind.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	assembly	assembly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	convened	convene	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	930	930	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	accounted	account	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 assembly |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent assembly=Theme |
| 2 | **convene** | past | the assembly |  |  |  | year |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **account** | present · passive | the assembly *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the oldest | tree rules |

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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 Parliament of England

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:67-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies:e2:o1:1
# text = The Parliament of England
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Diet of Japan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:67-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies:e2:o2:1
# text = The Diet of Japan
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Diet	diet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The Althing of Iceland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:67-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies:e2:o3:1
# text = The Althing of Iceland
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Althing	Althing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Senate of the United States

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:67-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies:e2:o4:1
# text = The Senate of the United States
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Senate	Senate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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