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title: bro watched 300 and says only 300 guys fought at Thermopylae. right? — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens an… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro watched 300 and says only 300 guys fought at Thermopylae. right? Test 1 of lesson 11 «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» 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 wrong.
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# Test 1 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta

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bro watched 300 and says only 300 guys fought at Thermopylae. right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro, 300 guys · **What happens:** watch, say, fight · **To what, where:** 300, Thermopylae · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 of lesson 11 «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» 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/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t1:1
# text = bro watched 300 and says only 300 guys fought at Thermopylae. right?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	guys	guy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Thermopylae	Thermopylae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
13	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | bro | 300 |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 300=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | bro *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fight** | past | 300 guys |  |  | Thermopylae |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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No, there were 3 million Spartans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t1:o1:1
# text = No, there were 3 million Spartans
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	Spartans	spartan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | million Spartans |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, and they all lived

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t1:o2:1
# text = Yes, and they all lived
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, several thousand other Greeks fought too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t1:o3:1
# text = No, several thousand other Greeks fought too
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | other Greeks | several thousand |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, exactly 300 and no more, the film is right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, exactly 300 and no more, the film is right
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the film |  |  |  |  | right *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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