--- title: Where does the rubber for the first bouncy balls come from? — The Maya · tree and pragmatics description: Where does the rubber for the first bouncy balls come from? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 18 «The Maya» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/18-the-maya/t9/) [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/) / [The Maya](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/18-the-maya/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★ · The Maya Where does the rubber for the first bouncy balls come from? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** first bouncy balls · **What happens:** do, come · **To what, where:** rubber This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 18 «The Maya» 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/18-the-maya/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:t9:1 # text = Where does the rubber for the first bouncy balls come from? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 8 bouncy bouncy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | | the rubber | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubber=Eventuality | | 2 | **come** | present | the first bouncy balls | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Silkworms in China ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:t9:o1:1 # text = Silkworms in China 1 Silkworms silkworm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Oil wells in Europe dug in the Middle Ages ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:t9:o2:1 # text = Oil wells in Europe dug in the Middle Ages 1 Oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 wells well NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 dug dig VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Middle Middle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 9 Ages Age PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig** | past | Oil wells in Europe | | | | in the Middle Ages | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in age=Location | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Tree sap, discovered by Native Americans ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:t9:o3:1 # text = Tree sap, discovered by Native Americans 1 Tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 sap SAP NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 discovered discover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 Native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Americans American PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 obl:agent _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **discover** | participle | | Tree sap *not said here* | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Volcano rocks ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:18-the-maya:t9:o4:1 # text = Volcano rocks 1 Volcano volcano NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. - ← previous: [The Maya, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/18-the-maya/t8/) - next →: [The Maya, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/18-the-maya/t10/) - ↑ back to [The Maya](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/18-the-maya/)