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title: Why would a stone wall around Jericho be useful? — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would a stone wall around Jericho be useful? Test 5 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · The first farms and towns

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Why would a stone wall around Jericho be useful?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stone wall · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t5:1
# text = Why would a stone wall around Jericho be useful?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Jericho	Jericho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | a stone wall around Jericho |  |  |  |  | useful *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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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To hold up the roofs of the houses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t5:o1:1
# text = To hold up the roofs of the houses
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold up** | to-infinitive |  | the roofs of the houses |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot roof=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To keep the sea out of the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t5:o2:1
# text = To keep the sea out of the town
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | the sea |  | the town |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sea=Theme out town=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To mark a football pitch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t5:o3:1
# text = To mark a football pitch
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	mark	mark	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | to-infinitive |  | a football pitch |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent pitch=Destination |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To protect the town and its stored food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t5:o4:1
# text = To protect the town and its stored food
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	protect	protect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** | to-infinitive |  | the town and its stored food |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **store** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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