--- title: A cartoon shows Egyptians eating burgers. What did they really eat m… — Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs · tree and pragmatics description: A cartoon shows Egyptians eating burgers. What did they really eat most? Test 4 of lesson 5 «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/) / t4 # Test 4 · Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs A cartoon shows Egyptians eating burgers. What did they really eat most? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon, Egyptians · **What happens:** show, eat, do · **To what, where:** Egyptians, burgers, most This is test 4 of lesson 5 «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» 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/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows Egyptians eating burgers. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t4:1 # text = A cartoon shows Egyptians eating burgers. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Egyptians Egyptian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 burgers burger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon | | Egyptians | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent egyptian=Recipient | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | Egyptians *not said here* | burgers | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burger=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* What did they really eat most? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t4:2 # text = What did they really eat most? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **eat** | present | Egyptians *= egyptian* | most | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Bread, onions and fish ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t4:o1:1 # text = Bread, onions and fish 1 Bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 onions onion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Tacos and beans ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t4:o2:1 # text = Tacos and beans 1 Tacos taco NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Sushi and rice ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t4:o3:1 # text = Sushi and rice 1 Sushi sushi NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Burgers and chips ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t4:o4:1 # text = Burgers and chips 1 Burgers burger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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