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title: Your mate says the wooden horse of Troy is proven history. What is f… — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate says the wooden horse of Troy is proven history. What is fair to say? Test 2 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 right.
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# Test 2 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta

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Your mate says the wooden horse of Troy is proven history. What is fair to say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate · **What happens:** say, prove, be · **To what, where:** wooden horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate says the wooden horse of Troy is proven history.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t2:1
# text = Your mate says the wooden horse of Troy is proven history.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Troy	Troy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
11	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **prove** | present · passive |  | the wooden horse of Troy |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme history=Attribute |

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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:* What is fair to say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t2:2
# text = What is fair to say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It is in every history book as a proven fact

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t2:o1:1
# text = It is in every history book as a proven fact
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  | every history book |  | as a proven fact | tree rules |
| 2 | **prove** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Homer filmed it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t2:o2:1
# text = Homer filmed it
1	Homer	homer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	filmed	film	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **film** | past | Homer | it |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Archaeologists dug up the whole wooden horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t2:o3:1
# text = Archaeologists dug up the whole wooden horse
1	Archaeologists	archaeologist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig up** | past | Archaeologists | the whole wooden horse |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument |

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

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It is a story from legend, not proven history

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t2:o4:1
# text = It is a story from legend, not proven history
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a story and proven history |  | legend |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **prove** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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