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title: One king ruling many cities and peoples is called what? — Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires · tree and pragmatics
description: One king ruling many cities and peoples is called what? Test 8 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires

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One king ruling many cities and peoples is called what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** One king · **What happens:** rule, call · **To what, where:** many cities, One king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t8:1
# text = One king ruling many cities and peoples is called what?
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | gerund | One king *not said here* | many cities and peoples |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  | One king |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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An empire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t8:o1:1
# text = An empire
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A tribe of hunters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t8:o2:1
# text = A tribe of hunters
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A democracy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t8:o3:1
# text = A democracy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	democracy	democracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A small village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires:t8:o4:1
# text = A small village
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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