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description: Identify the term which denotes a person who has fled war or persecution in the country of his or her nationality. Exam question 1 of lesson 19 «Immigration and borders» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Exam question 1 · Immigration and borders

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Identify the term which denotes a person who has fled war or persecution in the country of his or her nationality.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, term, person · **What happens:** identify, denote, flee · **To what, where:** term, person, war, country

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 19 «Immigration and borders» of the politics 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/politics/19-immigration-and-borders/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:19-immigration-and-borders:e1:1
# text = Identify the term which denotes a person who has fled war or persecution in the country of his or her nationality.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	denotes	denote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	persecution	persecution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	nationality	nationality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 term |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme |
| 2 | **denote** | present | the term | a person |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot person=Topic |
| 3 | **flee** | present · perfect | a person | war or persecution |  | the country of person's nationality |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=Initial\_Location |

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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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A border officer at a port

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:19-immigration-and-borders:e1:o1:1
# text = A border officer at a port
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A citizen by birth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:19-immigration-and-borders:e1:o2:1
# text = A citizen by birth
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	citizen	citizen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A refugee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:19-immigration-and-borders:e1:o3:1
# text = A refugee
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	refugee	refugee	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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A tourist travelling abroad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:19-immigration-and-borders:e1:o4:1
# text = A tourist travelling abroad
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tourist	tourist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | gerund | a tourist *not said here* |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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