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title: Identify the region in which the potato was first domesticated. — What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, hor… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the region in which the potato was first domesticated. Exam question 1 of lesson 71 «What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Exam question 1 · What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religion…

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Identify the region in which the potato was first domesticated.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, domesticate · **To what, where:** region, potato

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 71 «What trade carried: tomatoes, tea, horses, words, religions and diseases» 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/71-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:71-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases:e1:1
# text = Identify the region in which the potato was first domesticated.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	region	region	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	7	det	_	_
7	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
10	domesticated	domesticate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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 region |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent region=Theme |
| 2 | **domesticate** | past · passive |  | the potato |  | the region |  | first *property* | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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 Nile valley of ancient Egypt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:71-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases:e1:o1:1
# text = The Nile valley of ancient Egypt
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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The Andes of South America

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:71-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases:e1:o2:1
# text = The Andes of South America
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Andes	Ande	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The island of Ireland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:71-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases:e1:o3:1
# text = The island of Ireland
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ireland	Ireland	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 plains of Ukraine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:71-what-trade-carried-tomatoes-tea-horses-words-and-diseases:e1:o4:1
# text = The plains of Ukraine
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	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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