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title: bruh why was India so rich back then — The Mughals, the Ming and the empires… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh why was India so rich back then Test 7 of lesson 35 «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» 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.
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# Test 7 · The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia

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bruh why was India so rich back then

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** India

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This is test 7 of lesson 35 «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» 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/35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:t7:1
# text = bruh why was India so rich back then
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | India |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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It had nearly all the world's gold mines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:t7:o1:1
# text = It had nearly all the world's gold mines
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | It | all gold mines |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mine=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It sold oil to Europe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:t7:o2:1
# text = It sold oil to Europe
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past | It | oil | Europe |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent oil=Theme to europe=Recipient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Trade, farming and famous cotton cloth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:t7:o3:1
# text = Trade, farming and famous cotton cloth
1	Trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	farming	farming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It got loads of money from Britain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:35-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia:t7:o4:1
# text = It got loads of money from Britain
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | It | loads of money |  | Britain |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent load=Theme from britain=Source |

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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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