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title: Why did Hatshepsut sometimes wear a false beard? — Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs · tree and pragmatics
description: Why did Hatshepsut sometimes wear a false beard? Test 5 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.
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# Test 5 · Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs

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Why did Hatshepsut sometimes wear a false beard?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** wear · **To what, where:** Hatshepsut

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t5:1
# text = Why did Hatshepsut sometimes wear a false beard?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	Hatshepsut	Hatshepsut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present |  | Hatshepsut |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent beard=Source |

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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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It was part of a king's royal look

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t5:o1:1
# text = It was part of a king's royal look
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | part |  |  |  | of a king's royal look | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She was hiding from robbers in the city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t5:o2:1
# text = She was hiding from robbers in the city
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · progressive | She |  |  | robbers |  | in the city | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from robber=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Beards kept the hot sun off her face

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t5:o3:1
# text = Beards kept the hot sun off her face
1	Beards	beard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Beards | the hot sun |  |  |  | off her face | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It was a joke at a party

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t5:o4:1
# text = It was a joke at a party
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | a joke |  | a party |  |  | tree rules |

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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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