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title: Without the Andes, what might many European dinners lack today? — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics
description: Without the Andes, what might many European dinners lack today? Test 9 · ★★★ 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 9 · ★★★ · The Aztecs and the Inca

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Without the Andes, what might many European dinners lack today?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many European dinners · **What happens:** lack

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This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t9:1
# text = Without the Andes, what might many European dinners lack today?
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Andes	Ande	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dinners	dinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lack	lack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lack** | present | many European dinners |  |  |  | today | without the Andes | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Cheese

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t9:o1:1
# text = Cheese
1	Cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Potatoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t9:o2:1
# text = Potatoes
1	Potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t9:o3:1
# text = Fish
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca:t9:o4:1
# text = Bread
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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