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title: In a game you trade silk for horses at an oasis. Which real thing is… — Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk R… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a game you trade silk for horses at an oasis. Which real thing is this most like? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius

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In a game you trade silk for horses at an oasis. Which real thing is this most like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** trade, be · **To what, where:** silk, game, this

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» 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/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a game you trade silk for horses at an oasis.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:t11:1
# text = In a game you trade silk for horses at an oasis.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	trade	trade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	oasis	oasis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trade** | present | you | silk |  | a game |  | for horses; at a oasis | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent silk=Theme for horse=Co-Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which real thing is this most like?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:t11:2
# text = Which real thing is this most like?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A Silk Road caravan trade

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:t11:o1:1
# text = A Silk Road caravan trade
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Silk	Silk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A Viking raid on a monastery

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:t11:o2:1
# text = A Viking raid on a monastery
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	raid	raid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A Roman chariot race

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:t11:o3:1
# text = A Roman chariot race
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An Olympic game in Greece

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius:t11:o4:1
# text = An Olympic game in Greece
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Olympic	olympic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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