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title: Why did the Olympics pause wars? — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympic… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did the Olympics pause wars? Test 9 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers

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Why did the Olympics pause wars?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Olympics pause wars

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t9:1
# text = Why did the Olympics pause wars?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Olympics	Olympic	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
5	pause	pause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	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 |  | the Olympics pause wars |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Because all the soldiers were running in the races

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t9:o1:1
# text = Because all the soldiers were running in the races
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · progressive | all soldiers |  |  | the races |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in race=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Because Zeus banned swords for ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t9:o2:1
# text = Because Zeus banned swords for ever
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	banned	ban	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | past | Zeus | swords |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sword=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Because it was winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t9:o3:1
# text = Because it was winter
1	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	winter	winter	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** | past | it |  |  |  |  | because winter | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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So athletes and fans could travel safely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers:t9:o4:1
# text = So athletes and fans could travel safely
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	athletes	athlete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | could | athletes and fans |  |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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