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title: Which is a reason concrete flats were built in the 1960s? — Buildings and architecture · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is a reason concrete flats were built in the 1960s? Test 10 of lesson 34 «Buildings and architecture» of the arts 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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# Test 10 · Buildings and architecture

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Which is a reason concrete flats were built in the 1960s?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** reason · **What happens:** be, build · **To what, where:** reason, concrete flats, 1960s

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This is test 10 of lesson 34 «Buildings and architecture» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. 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/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:34-buildings-and-architecture:t10:1
# text = Which is a reason concrete flats were built in the 1960s?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	concrete	concrete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	flats	flat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	1960s	1960s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | past · passive | a reason *not said here* | concrete flats |  | the 1960s |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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To make cities look as grey as possible

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:34-buildings-and-architecture:t10:o1:1
# text = To make cities look as grey as possible
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
3	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | cities |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product |
| 2 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as grey | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To store old cars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:34-buildings-and-architecture:t10:o2:1
# text = To store old cars
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	store	store	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | to-infinitive |  | old cars |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |

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

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To give many people new homes quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:34-buildings-and-architecture:t10:o3:1
# text = To give many people new homes quickly
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	iobj	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | new homes | many people |  |  | quickly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient home=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Because bricks were banned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:34-buildings-and-architecture:t10:o4:1
# text = Because bricks were banned
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | past · passive |  | bricks |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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