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description: Identify the ruler who, subsequent to the conquest of Kalinga, caused edicts enjoining kindness and religious tolerance to be inscribed upon pillars. Exam question 1 of lesson 8 «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Exam question 1 · Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers

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Identify the ruler who, subsequent to the conquest of Kalinga, caused edicts enjoining kindness and religious tolerance to be inscribed upon pillars.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, edicts · **What happens:** identify, cause, enjoin, inscribe · **To what, where:** ruler, edicts, kindness, pillars

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 8 «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» 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/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:e1:1
# text = Identify the ruler who, subsequent to the conquest of Kalinga, caused edicts enjoining kindness and religious tolerance to be inscribed upon pillars.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Kalinga	Kalinga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	edicts	edict	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	enjoining	enjoin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tolerance	tolerance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 ruler |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent ruler=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | past |  | edicts |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition edict=Patient |
| 3 | **enjoin** | gerund | edicts *not said here* | kindness and religious tolerance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **inscribe** | to-infinitive · passive | edicts *not said here* |  |  | pillars |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: upon pillar=Destination |

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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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Cyrus the Great

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:e1:o1:1
# text = Cyrus the Great
1	Cyrus	Cyrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Aryabhata

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:e1:o2:1
# text = Aryabhata
1	Aryabhata	Aryabhata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chandragupta Maurya

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:e1:o3:1
# text = Chandragupta Maurya
1	Chandragupta	Chandragupta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Maurya	Maurya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Ashoka

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:e1:o4:1
# text = Ashoka
1	Ashoka	Ashoka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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