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description: Houses packed so tight you walk on roofs, about 9,000 years ago. Which town? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 2 «The first farms and towns» 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 10 · ★ · The first farms and towns

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Houses packed so tight you walk on roofs, about 9,000 years ago. Which town?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Houses · **What happens:** pack, walk · **To what, where:** Houses, roofs

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2 «The first farms and towns» 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/2-the-first-farms-and-towns/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Houses packed so tight you walk on roofs, about 9,000 years ago.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t10:1
# text = Houses packed so tight you walk on roofs, about 9,000 years ago.
1	Houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	9,000	9,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pack** | participle |  | Houses *not said here* |  |  |  | tight *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | present | Houses |  |  | roofs |  | ago *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Trajectory |

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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:* Which town?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t10:2
# text = Which town?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Çatalhöyük in Turkey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t10:o1:1
# text = Çatalhöyük in Turkey
1	Çatalhöyük	Çatalhöyük	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Uruk in Iraq

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t10:o2:1
# text = Uruk in Iraq
1	Uruk	Uruk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Stonehenge in England

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t10:o3:1
# text = Stonehenge in England
1	Stonehenge	Stonehenge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Jericho by the Jordan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t10:o4:1
# text = Jericho by the Jordan
1	Jericho	Jericho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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