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title: Why is it worth telling the true story of a discovery, not just the… — Famous discoveries told as stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is it worth telling the true story of a discovery, not just the legend? Test 10 of lesson 35 «Famous discoveries told as stories» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · Famous discoveries told as stories

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Why is it worth telling the true story of a discovery, not just the legend?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** true story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 35 «Famous discoveries told as stories» of the chemistry 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/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t10:1
# text = Why is it worth telling the true story of a discovery, not just the legend?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
4	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | the true story of a discovery |  |  |  | the legend *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |

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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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The facts may differ from the famous tale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t10:o1:1
# text = The facts may differ from the famous tale
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	differ	differ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **differ** | may | the facts |  |  |  |  | from the famous tale | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from tale=Co-Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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True stories are always shorter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t10:o2:1
# text = True stories are always shorter
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | True stories |  |  |  |  | always, short *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only legends teach real science

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t10:o3:1
# text = Only legends teach real science
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | legends | real science |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent science=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Legends are always completely true in every detail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:35-famous-discoveries-stories:t10:o4:1
# text = Legends are always completely true in every detail
1	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
4	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	detail	detail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Legends |  |  | every detail |  | always, completely, true *property* | tree rules |

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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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