--- title: Identify the year in which the United States declared its independen… — Time and history: the timeline and how… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the year in which the United States declared its independence. Exam question 4 of lesson 48 «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/48-time-and-history/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Time and history: the timeline and how…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/48-time-and-history/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago Identify the year in which the United States declared its independence. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, United States · **What happens:** identify, declare · **To what, where:** independence This is exam question 4 of lesson 48 «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» of the world 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/world/48-time-and-history/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e4:1 # text = Identify the year in which the United States declared its independence. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 independence independence NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | year | | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the United States | its independence | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent independence=Attribute | 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} 1865 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e4:o1:1 # text = 1865 1 1865 1865 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 1776 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e4:o2:1 # text = 1776 1 1776 1776 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 1812 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e4:o3:1 # text = 1812 1 1812 1812 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 1492 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e4:o4:1 # text = 1492 1 1492 1492 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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