--- title: According to a well-known story, monks smuggled something to the Byz… — The Silk Road · tree and pragmatics description: According to a well-known story, monks smuggled something to the Byzantine Empire in the 500s. What? Test 11 of lesson 28 «The Silk Road» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/t11/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [The Silk Road](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/) / t11 # Test 11 · The Silk Road According to a well-known story, monks smuggled something to the Byzantine Empire in the 500s. What? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** monks · **What happens:** accord, know, smuggle · **To what, where:** something, Byzantine Empire, 500s This is test 11 of lesson 28 «The Silk Road» of the geography 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/geography/28-the-silk-road/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* According to a well-known story, monks smuggled something to the Byzantine Empire in the 500s. ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:28-the-silk-road:t11:1 # text = According to a well-known story, monks smuggled something to the Byzantine Empire in the 500s. 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 monks monk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 smuggled smuggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Byzantine Byzantine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Empire Empire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 500s 500 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **know** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **smuggle** | past | monks | something | the Byzantine Empire | the 500s | | accord a known story | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme to empire=Destination | 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. *Sentence 2:* What? ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:28-the-silk-road:t11:2 # text = What? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Gunpowder recipes ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:28-the-silk-road:t11:o1:1 # text = Gunpowder recipes 1 Gunpowder gunpowder NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 recipes recipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Sacks of potatoes ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:28-the-silk-road:t11:o2:1 # text = Sacks of potatoes 1 Sacks sack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Silkworm eggs ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:28-the-silk-road:t11:o3:1 # text = Silkworm eggs 1 Silkworm silkworm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Tea plant seeds ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:28-the-silk-road:t11:o4:1 # text = Tea plant seeds 1 Tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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