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title: Identify the period designated as the Edwardian age. — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the period designated as the Edwardian age. Exam question 1 of lesson 83 «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Exam question 1 · Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, stea…

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Identify the period designated as the Edwardian age.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, designate · **To what, where:** period

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 83 «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns» 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/83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns:e1:1
# text = Identify the period designated as the Edwardian age.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	designated	designate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Edwardian	edwardian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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 period |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent period=Theme |
| 2 | **designate** | participle |  | the period *not said here* |  |  | as the Edwardian age |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as age=Attribute |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The reign of King Edward VII, from 1901 to 1910

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns:e1:o1:1
# text = The reign of King Edward VII, from 1901 to 1910
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Edward	Edward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	VII	VII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1901	1901	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1910	1910	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The period after the Second World War, from 1945

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns:e1:o2:1
# text = The period after the Second World War, from 1945
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Second	Second	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
6	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1945	1945	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns:e1:o3:1
# text = The reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1837	1837	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1901	1901	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The years of the Norman Conquest of England

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns:e1:o4:1
# text = The years of the Norman Conquest of England
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Norman	Norman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Conquest	Conquest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

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