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description: A cartoon shows medieval Africa as only jungle with no towns. What should you put right? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 22 «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 5 · ★ · The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world

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A cartoon shows medieval Africa as only jungle with no towns. What should you put right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon, you · **What happens:** show, put · **To what, where:** medieval Africa

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 22 «The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world» 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/22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows medieval Africa as only jungle with no towns.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:t5:1
# text = A cartoon shows medieval Africa as only jungle with no towns.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	medieval	medieval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon |  | medieval Africa |  |  | as jungle with no towns | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent africa=Recipient |

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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:* What should you put right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:t5:2
# text = What should you put right?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | should | you |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Goal |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Only Europeans built cities

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:t5:o1:1
# text = Only Europeans built cities
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Europeans | cities |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Africa had no people then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:t5:o2:1
# text = Africa had no people then
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Africa | no people |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Africa had rich kingdoms like Mali and cities with libraries like Timbuktu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:t5:o3:1
# text = Africa had rich kingdoms like Mali and cities with libraries like Timbuktu
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mali	Mali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	libraries	library	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Timbuktu	Timbuktu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Africa | rich kingdoms |  |  |  | like Mali and cities; with libraries like Timbuktu | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is completely accurate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:t5:o4:1
# text = It is completely accurate
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | accurate, completely *property* | tree rules |

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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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