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title: Spartan girls did sports too. Why? — Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Spartan girls did sports too. Why? Test 9 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 9 · Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta

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Spartan girls did sports too. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Spartan girls · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** sports

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Spartan girls did sports too.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t9:1
# text = Spartan girls did sports too.
1	Spartan	spartan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Spartan girls | sports |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Eventuality |

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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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t9:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Girls were the only soldiers in Sparta

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t9:o1:1
# text = Girls were the only soldiers in Sparta
1	Girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sparta	Sparta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Girls | the only soldiers |  | Sparta |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They were training to row in the navy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t9:o2:1
# text = They were training to row in the navy
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	training	train	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	navy	navy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | past · progressive | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **row** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  | the navy |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It was a punishment for being lazy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t9:o3:1
# text = It was a punishment for being lazy
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a punishment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Spartans wanted them to be strong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta:t9:o4:1
# text = Spartans wanted them to be strong
1	Spartans	spartan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Spartans | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | strong *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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