--- title: The Marathon runner story. What do historians say? — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens an… · tree and pragmatics description: The Marathon runner story. What do historians say? Test 7 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/) / t7 # Test 7 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta The Marathon runner story. What do historians say? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** historians · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* The Marathon runner story. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t7:1 # text = The Marathon runner story. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Marathon Marathon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 runner runner NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 2:* What do historians say? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t7:2 # text = What do historians say? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | historians | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} The battle is real, the runner story is a later legend ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t7:o1:1 # text = The battle is real, the runner story is a later legend 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 runner runner NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 later late ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the battle | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the runner story | a later legend | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Both the battle and the runner are made up ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t7:o2:1 # text = Both the battle and the runner are made up 1 Both both CCONJ CC _ 3 cc:preconj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 runner runner NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | present · passive | | the battle and the runner | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | ### Option 3 {#o3} The race only happened in 2004 at the Olympics ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t7:o3:1 # text = The race only happened in 2004 at the Olympics 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 2004 2004 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Olympics Olympic PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | the race | | | 2004 | | at the Olympics | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in 2004=Location | ### Option 4 {#o4} The runner was really the Persian king ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t7:o4:1 # text = The runner was really the Persian king 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 runner runner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Persian persian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the runner | the Persian king | | | | | tree rules | **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. 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