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title: dad says bronze came before stone tools lol. is he right? — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics
description: dad says bronze came before stone tools lol. is he right? Test 6 · ★ 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 6 · ★ · The first farms and towns

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dad says bronze came before stone tools lol. is he right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dad, bronze · **What happens:** say, come, be · **To what, where:** stone tools · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t6:1
# text = dad says bronze came before stone tools lol. is he right?
1	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past | bronze |  |  | stone tools |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before tool=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | bronze |  |  |  |  | right *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, stone tools came long before bronze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t6:o1:1
# text = No, stone tools came long before bronze
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | stone tools |  |  | bronze |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before bronze=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, bronze is the oldest material people used

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t6:o2:1
# text = Yes, bronze is the oldest material people used
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | bronze | the oldest material |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | past | people | the oldest material *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, iron came before both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t6:o3:1
# text = No, iron came before both
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | iron |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, people started with metal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t6:o4:1
# text = Yes, people started with metal
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | people |  |  |  |  | with metal | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with metal=Subeventuality |

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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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