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title: Which city would a sailor, an artist and a thinker most like to live… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which city would a sailor, an artist and a thinker most like to live in? Test 10 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 10 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta

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Which city would a sailor, an artist and a thinker most like to live in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** live in

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This is test 10 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t10:1
# text = Which city would a sailor, an artist and a thinker most like to live in?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	thinker	thinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
13	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	live	live	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Troy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t10:o1:1
# text = Troy
1	Troy	Troy	PROPN	NNP	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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Persepolis

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t10:o2:1
# text = Persepolis
1	Persepolis	Persepolis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sparta

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t10:o3:1
# text = Sparta
1	Sparta	sparta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Athens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t10:o4:1
# text = Athens
1	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	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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