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title: Select the historical figure of whom no photograph can exist. — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the historical figure of whom no photograph can exist. Exam question 3 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 3 · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

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Select the historical figure of whom no photograph can exist.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, photograph · **What happens:** select, exist · **To what, where:** historical figure

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e3:1
# text = Select the historical figure of whom no photograph can exist.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nmod	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	photograph	photograph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the historical figure |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme |
| 2 | **exist** | can | no photograph |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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Taras Shevchenko

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e3:o1:1
# text = Taras Shevchenko
1	Taras	Taras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	Shevchenko	Shevchenko	PROPN	NNP	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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Queen Victoria

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e3:o2:1
# text = Queen Victoria
1	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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President Abraham Lincoln

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e3:o3:1
# text = President Abraham Lincoln
1	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Lincoln	Lincoln	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	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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Napoleon Bonaparte

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e3:o4:1
# text = Napoleon Bonaparte
1	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Bonaparte	Bonaparte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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