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title: Mansa Musa, a famous king of Mali in the 1300s, was known for huge a… — Gemstones and precious metals · tree and pragmatics
description: Mansa Musa, a famous king of Mali in the 1300s, was known for huge amounts of what? Test 5 of lesson 51 «Gemstones and precious metals» 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 5 · Gemstones and precious metals

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Mansa Musa, a famous king of Mali in the 1300s, was known for huge amounts of what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** know · **To what, where:** Mansa

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This is test 5 of lesson 51 «Gemstones and precious metals» 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/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:51-gemstones-and-precious-metals:t5:1
# text = Mansa Musa, a famous king of Mali in the 1300s, was known for huge amounts of what?
1	Mansa	Mansa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Musa	Musa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mali	Mali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	1300s	1300	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | Mansa |  |  |  | for huge amounts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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Platinum from Russia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:51-gemstones-and-precious-metals:t5:o1:1
# text = Platinum from Russia
1	Platinum	platinum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Diamonds from India

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:51-gemstones-and-precious-metals:t5:o2:1
# text = Diamonds from India
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Silver from Bolivia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:51-gemstones-and-precious-metals:t5:o3:1
# text = Silver from Bolivia
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Bolivia	Bolivia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:51-gemstones-and-precious-metals:t5:o4:1
# text = Gold
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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