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# Test 4 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta

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Two city-states argue a lot but a Persian army comes. What did the Greeks often do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Two city states, Persian army, Greeks · **What happens:** argue, come, do · **To what, where:** lot

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Two city-states argue a lot but a Persian army comes.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t4:1
# text = Two city-states argue a lot but a Persian army comes.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	states	state	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Two city states | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | a Persian army |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* What did the Greeks often do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t4:2
# text = What did the Greeks often do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | the Greeks |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Leave Greece for ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t4:o1:1
# text = Leave Greece for ever
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | Greece |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent greece=Theme for ever=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Join together against the outside enemy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t4:o2:1
# text = Join together against the outside enemy
1	Join	join	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against the outside enemy; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Join the Persians at once and fight their neighbours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t4:o3:1
# text = Join the Persians at once and fight their neighbours
1	Join	join	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Persians	Persian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | imperative | you *not said here* | the Persians |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persian=Patient |
| 2 | **fight** | present | you *not said here* | Persians's neighbours |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ask Rome for help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t4:o4:1
# text = Ask Rome for help
1	Ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Rome |  |  | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rome=Recipient |

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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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