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title: Ascertain the seat of government of the Commonwealth of Australia. — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the seat of government of the Commonwealth of Australia. Exam question 3 of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was rig
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# Exam question 3 · Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground

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Ascertain the seat of government of the Commonwealth of Australia.

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

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the seat of government of the Commonwealth of Australia.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the seat of government of the Commonwealth of Australia |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Topic |

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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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Canberra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:e3:o1:1
# text = Canberra
1	Canberra	Canberra	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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Brisbane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:e3:o2:1
# text = Brisbane
1	Brisbane	Brisbane	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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Sydney

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:e3:o3:1
# text = Sydney
1	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	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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Melbourne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:e3:o4:1
# text = Melbourne
1	Melbourne	Melbourne	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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