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title: ok so how did Eratosthenes measure the earth, he didn't have a plane? — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympic… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so how did Eratosthenes measure the earth, he didn't have a plane? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 12 «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» 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 w
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# Test 10 · ★ · Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers

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ok so how did Eratosthenes measure the earth, he didn't have a plane?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Eratosthenes · **What happens:** measure, not have · **To what, where:** earth, plane

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 12 «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» 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/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t10:1
# text = ok so how did Eratosthenes measure the earth, he didn't have a plane?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Eratosthenes	Eratosthenes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	measure	measure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | past · do-support | Eratosthenes | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme earth=Value |
| 2 | **not** **have** | past · do-support | Eratosthenes | a plane |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plane=Patient |

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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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He asked a god

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t10:o1:1
# text = He asked a god
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | He |  | a god |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent god=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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He used shadows and some clever maths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t10:o2:1
# text = He used shadows and some clever maths
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | He | shadows and some clever maths |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He walked all the way round the world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t10:o3:1
# text = He walked all the way round the world
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | He | all way |  | the world |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme round world=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He sailed around it in a year and counted the days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t10:o4:1
# text = He sailed around it in a year and counted the days
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | He |  |  | it | year |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Trajectory |
| 2 | **count** | past | He *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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