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title: Horus is shown with a bird's head. Which bird? — Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs · tree and pragmatics
description: Horus is shown with a bird's head. Which bird? Test 8 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs

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Horus is shown with a bird's head. Which bird?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** Horus

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Horus is shown with a bird's head.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t8:1
# text = Horus is shown with a bird's head.
1	Horus	horus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · passive |  | Horus |  |  |  | with a bird's head | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:* Which bird?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t8:2
# text = Which bird?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A chicken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t8:o1:1
# text = A chicken
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A night owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t8:o2:1
# text = A night owl
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A green parrot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t8:o3:1
# text = A green parrot
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A falcon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t8:o4:1
# text = A falcon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	falcon	falcon	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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