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description: Identify the instrument which Christopher Columbus could genuinely have employed in 1492. Exam question 2 of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was ri
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# Exam question 2 · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

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Identify the instrument which Christopher Columbus could genuinely have employed in 1492.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, employ · **To what, where:** instrument, Christopher, 1492

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e2:1
# text = Identify the instrument which Christopher Columbus could genuinely have employed in 1492.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
5	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	Columbus	Columbus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	genuinely	genuinely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 instrument |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme |
| 2 | **employ** | could · perfect · passive |  | Christopher |  | 1492 |  | genuinely *property* | tree rules |

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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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A magnetic compass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e2:o1:1
# text = A magnetic compass
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A camera

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e2:o2:1
# text = A camera
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	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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A wristwatch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e2:o3:1
# text = A wristwatch
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wristwatch	wristwatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An astronomical telescope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e2:o4:1
# text = An astronomical telescope
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	astronomical	astronomical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	telescope	telescope	NOUN	NN	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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