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title: My teacher said, no wait, she said Babylon was in Egypt. Where was it? — Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires · tree and pragmatics
description: My teacher said, no wait, she said Babylon was in Egypt. Where was it? Test 10 · ★ 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 each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires

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My teacher said, no wait, she said Babylon was in Egypt. Where was it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** teacher, Babylon, wait · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** wait, Egypt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 4 «Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires» 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/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* My teacher said, no wait, she said Babylon was in Egypt.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t10:1
# text = My teacher said, no wait, she said Babylon was in Egypt.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | My teacher | no wait |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Babylon |  |  | Egypt |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* Where was it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t10:2
# text = Where was it?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wait |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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In China by the Yellow River

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t10:o1:1
# text = In China by the Yellow River
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Yellow	Yellow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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In Mesopotamia, in today's Iraq

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t10:o2:1
# text = In Mesopotamia, in today's Iraq
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Mesopotamia	Mesopotamia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Iraq	Iraq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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In Egypt by the Nile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t10:o3:1
# text = In Egypt by the Nile
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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In Greece by the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t10:o4:1
# text = In Greece by the sea
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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