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description: Tenochtitlan was bigger than most European cities then. What does that tell a fair historian? Test 11 · ★★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · The Aztecs and the Inca

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Tenochtitlan was bigger than most European cities then. What does that tell a fair historian?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Tenochtitlan, that · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** fair historian · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★★★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Tenochtitlan was bigger than most European cities then.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t11:1
# text = Tenochtitlan was bigger than most European cities then.
1	Tenochtitlan	Tenochtitlan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Tenochtitlan |  |  |  | then | than most European cities; big *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does that tell a fair historian?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t11:2
# text = What does that tell a fair historian?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	historian	historian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | that | a fair historian |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient historian=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Europe had no cities at all at that time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t11:o1:1
# text = Europe had no cities at all at that time
1	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It was built by Europeans who sailed there earlier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t11:o2:1
# text = It was built by Europeans who sailed there earlier
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive | Europeans | It |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 2 | **sail** | past | Europeans |  |  | there |  | early *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The Americas had great cities as rich as Europe's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t11:o3:1
# text = The Americas had great cities as rich as Europe's
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Americas | great cities |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The number must be wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t11:o4:1
# text = The number must be wrong
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | the number |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

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