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description: Two villages have dogs, sheep and cattle. Which animal did their great-great ancestors tame first, before farming? Test 8 · ★ 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 cho
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# Test 8 · ★ · The first farms and towns

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Two villages have dogs, sheep and cattle. Which animal did their great-great ancestors tame first, before farming?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Two villages, animal, great great ancestors · **What happens:** have, do, tame, farm · **To what, where:** dogs

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Two villages have dogs, sheep and cattle.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t8:1
# text = Two villages have dogs, sheep and cattle.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Two villages | dogs and sheep and cattle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |

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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 animal did their great-great ancestors tame first, before farming?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t8:2
# text = Which animal did their great-great ancestors tame first, before farming?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tame	tame	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	farming	farm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tame** | present | cattle's great great ancestors |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **farm** | gerund | which animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t8:o1:1
# text = The dog
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The sheep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t8:o2:1
# text = The sheep
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	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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The horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t8:o3:1
# text = The horse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The cattle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:2-the-first-farms-and-towns:t8:o4:1
# text = The cattle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cattle	cattle	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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