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title: a film shows a few hundred spaniards beating the whole aztec empire… — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics
description: a film shows a few hundred spaniards beating the whole aztec empire alone. true? Test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «The Aztecs and the Inca» 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 1 · ★★★ · The Aztecs and the Inca

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a film shows a few hundred spaniards beating the whole aztec empire alone. true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** film, few hundred spaniards · **What happens:** show, beat · **To what, where:** few hundred spaniards, whole aztec empire

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This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «The Aztecs and the Inca» 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/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t1:1
# text = a film shows a few hundred spaniards beating the whole aztec empire alone. true?
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	spaniards	spaniard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	aztec	aztec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a film | a few hundred spaniards |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spaniard=Recipient |
| 2 | **beat** | gerund | a few hundred spaniards *not said here* | the whole aztec empire |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location empire=Theme |

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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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Yes, alone with swords

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t1:o1:1
# text = Yes, alone with swords
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, the Inca beat them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t1:o2:1
# text = No, the Inca beat them
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Inca	Inca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | the Inca | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, because the Aztecs had no army

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t1:o3:1
# text = Yes, because the Aztecs had no army
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Aztecs	Aztec	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Aztecs | no army |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, tens of thousands of native allies and disease did most of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t1:o4:1
# text = No, tens of thousands of native allies and disease did most of it
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	allies	ally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | tens of thousands of native allies and disease | most of disease |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality |

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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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