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description: Identify the ruler under whose authority approximately 280 laws were inscribed upon a stone stele for public inspection. Exam question 1 of lesson 4 «Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 1 · Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires

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Identify the ruler under whose authority approximately 280 laws were inscribed upon a stone stele for public inspection.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, inscribe · **To what, where:** ruler, authority, 280 laws, stone stele

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 4 «Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:e1:1
# text = Identify the ruler under whose authority approximately 280 laws were inscribed upon a stone stele for public inspection.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	280	280	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	stele	stele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	inspection	inspection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the ruler |  | authority |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent ruler=Theme |
| 2 | **inscribe** | past · passive |  | 280 laws |  | a stone stele for public inspection |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon stele=Destination |

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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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Ashurbanipal of Assyria

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:e1:o1:1
# text = Ashurbanipal of Assyria
1	Ashurbanipal	Ashurbanipal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Assyria	Assyria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sargon, king of Akkad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:e1:o2:1
# text = Sargon, king of Akkad
1	Sargon	Sargon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Akkad	Akkad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cyrus the Great of Persia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:e1:o3:1
# text = Cyrus the Great of Persia
1	Cyrus	Cyrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Hammurabi of Babylon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:e1:o4:1
# text = Hammurabi of Babylon
1	Hammurabi	Hammurabi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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