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title: Babylon has grain but no timber for roofs. What does it do? — Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires · tree and pragmatics
description: Babylon has grain but no timber for roofs. What does it do? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires

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Babylon has grain but no timber for roofs. What does it do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Babylon, timber · **What happens:** have, do · **To what, where:** grain

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Babylon has grain but no timber for roofs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t7:1
# text = Babylon has grain but no timber for roofs.
1	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Babylon | grain but no timber for roofs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient |

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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 does it do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t7:2
# text = What does it do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · do-support | timber |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Builds roofs out of grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t7:o1:1
# text = Builds roofs out of grain
1	Builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | present |  | roofs |  | grain |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset roof=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Stops building houses at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t7:o2:1
# text = Stops building houses at all
1	Stops	stop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	building	build	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | gerund | Stops *not said here* | houses |  | all |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Trades grain and cloth for timber from afar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t7:o3:1
# text = Trades grain and cloth for timber from afar
1	Trades	trade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Grows great forests in the desert overnight with magic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t7:o4:1
# text = Grows great forests in the desert overnight with magic
1	Grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present |  | great forests |  | the desert |  | with magic; overnight *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent forest=Patient with magic=Instrument |

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