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title: Ascertain the manner in which Japan achieved industrialisation subse… — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the manner in which Japan achieved industrialisation subsequent to eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Exam question 4 of lesson 72 «Why some places grew rich» 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 4 · Why some places grew rich

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Ascertain the manner in which Japan achieved industrialisation subsequent to eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Japan · **What happens:** ascertain, achieve · **To what, where:** manner, industrialisation

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 72 «Why some places grew rich» 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/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:72-why-some-places-grew-rich:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the manner in which Japan achieved industrialisation subsequent to eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
6	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	achieved	achieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	industrialisation	industrialisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the manner |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Topic |
| 2 | **achieve** | past | Japan | industrialisation |  |  |  | to eighteen hundred | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent industrialisation=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

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By the discovery of extensive silver deposits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:72-why-some-places-grew-rich:e4:o1:1
# text = By the discovery of extensive silver deposits
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	deposits	deposit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** |  |  | extensive silver deposits |  |  |  |  | nom discovery «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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By studying foreign institutions and constructing its own versions of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:72-why-some-places-grew-rich:e4:o2:1
# text = By studying foreign institutions and constructing its own versions of them
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	studying	study	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	institutions	institution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	constructing	construct	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **study** | gerund |  | foreign institutions |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent institution=Topic |
| 2 | **construct** | gerund |  | its own versions of versions |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By the abolition of all schools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:72-why-some-places-grew-rich:e4:o3:1
# text = By the abolition of all schools
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	abolition	abolition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abolish** |  |  | all schools |  |  |  |  | nom abolition «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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By the complete exclusion of all foreign contact and the prohibition of trade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:72-why-some-places-grew-rich:e4:o4:1
# text = By the complete exclusion of all foreign contact and the prohibition of trade
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	exclusion	exclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclude** |  |  | all foreign contact and the prohibition of trade |  |  |  |  | nom exclusion «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 2 | **prohibit** |  |  | trade |  |  |  |  | nom prohibition «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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