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title: Why would cheap paper help learning? — The Islamic golden age and the wider m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would cheap paper help learning? Test 7 · ★ 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 choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · The Islamic golden age and the wider medieval world

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Why would cheap paper help learning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** learn

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:t7:1
# text = Why would cheap paper help learning?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Paper replaced teachers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:t7:o1:1
# text = Paper replaced teachers
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **replace** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Paper made people cleverer all by itself, without reading

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:t7:o2:1
# text = Paper made people cleverer all by itself, without reading
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	cleverer	clever	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Paper | people |  |  |  | by Paper; clever *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |
| 2 | **read** | gerund | Paper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Paper was used only for money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:t7:o3:1
# text = Paper was used only for money
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | Paper |  |  |  | for money | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for money=Eventuality |

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

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More books could be made, so more people could read them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world:t7:o4:1
# text = More books could be made, so more people could read them
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could · passive |  | More books |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **read** | could | more people | books *= book* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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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