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title: Bloody hell, how old are them cave paintings at Lascaux and Altamira? — The first people: hunters, gatherers a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bloody hell, how old are them cave paintings at Lascaux and Altamira? Test 9 of lesson 1 «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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 9 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters

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Bloody hell, how old are them cave paintings at Lascaux and Altamira?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bloody hell · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** cave paintings, Lascaux

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This is test 9 of lesson 1 «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history 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/history/1-the-first-people/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:t9:1
# text = Bloody hell, how old are them cave paintings at Lascaux and Altamira?
1	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lascaux	Lascaux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Altamira	Altamira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bloody hell | cave paintings |  | Lascaux and Altamira |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Made last century as a joke by some local kids

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:t9:o1:1
# text = Made last century as a joke by some local kids
1	Made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  | century | as a joke; by some local kids | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About 3 million years old, before people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:t9:o2:1
# text = About 3 million years old, before people
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About 300 years old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:t9:o3:1
# text = About 300 years old
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Some paintings in such caves are over 30,000 years old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:t9:o4:1
# text = Some paintings in such caves are over 30,000 years old
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	30,000	30,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some paintings in such caves |  |  |  | year | old *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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