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title: Why do we still use the word panic? — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do we still use the word panic? Test 8 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers

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Why do we still use the word panic?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** use · **To what, where:** word panic

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t8:1
# text = Why do we still use the word panic?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · do-support | we | the word panic |  |  | still |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent panic=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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It was a Roman city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t8:o1:1
# text = It was a Roman city
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a Roman city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It means olive oil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t8:o2:1
# text = It means olive oil
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	olive	olive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | It | olive oil |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is the name of an Olympic sport

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t8:o3:1
# text = It is the name of an Olympic sport
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Olympic	olympic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the name |  |  |  | of a Olympic sport | tree rules |

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

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It comes from the Greek god Pan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t8:o4:1
# text = It comes from the Greek god Pan
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | It |  |  |  |  | from the Greek god | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from god=Initial\_Location |

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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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