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title: What would a messenger without a paiza probably find at a Mongol rel… — The Mongols · tree and pragmatics
description: What would a messenger without a paiza probably find at a Mongol relay station? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 23 «The Mongols» 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 Mongols

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What would a messenger without a paiza probably find at a Mongol relay station?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** messenger · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** Mongol relay station

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 23 «The Mongols» 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/23-the-mongols/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:23-the-mongols:t5:1
# text = What would a messenger without a paiza probably find at a Mongol relay station?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	paiza	paiza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Mongol	mongol	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	compound	_	_
13	relay	relay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | would | a messenger without a paiza |  |  | a Mongol relay station |  | probably *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Theme at station=Asset |

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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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A ship to sail to Japan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:23-the-mongols:t5:o1:1
# text = A ship to sail to Japan
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Japan |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to japan=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A free feast and a crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:23-the-mongols:t5:o2:1
# text = A free feast and a crown
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No fresh horse for him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:23-the-mongols:t5:o3:1
# text = No fresh horse for him
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A new empire of his own to rule

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:23-the-mongols:t5:o4:1
# text = A new empire of his own to rule
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «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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