--- title: Identify the city which a report of the United Nations published in… — Cities then and now: the biggest citie… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the city which a report of the United Nations published in two thousand and twenty-five ranked as the most populous. Exam question 1 of lesson 74 «Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/74-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Cities then and now: the biggest citie…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/74-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and o… Identify the city which a report of the United Nations published in two thousand and twenty-five ranked as the most populous. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, report · **What happens:** identify, publish, rank, report · **To what, where:** city, United Nations This is exam question 1 of lesson 74 «Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today» 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/74-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:74-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today:e1:1 # text = Identify the city which a report of the United Nations published in two thousand and twenty-five ranked as the most populous. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 United United PROPN NNP _ 10 compound _ _ 10 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 published publish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 12 in in ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 compound _ _ 14 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 19 ranked rank VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 23 advmod _ _ 23 populous populace NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the city | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent city=Theme | | 2 | **publish** | past | a report of the United Nations | the city | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **rank** | participle | | | | | | as the populous | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as populace=Attribute | | 4 | **report** | | | the United Nations | | | | | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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} Canberra, Australia ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:74-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today:e1:o1:1 # text = Canberra, Australia 1 Canberra Canberra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} London, England ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:74-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today:e1:o2:1 # text = London, England 1 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Rome, Italy ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:74-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today:e1:o3:1 # text = Rome, Italy 1 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Jakarta ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:74-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today:e1:o4:1 # text = Jakarta 1 Jakarta Jakarta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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