--- title: Before Narmer, Egypt had two lands. What were they called? — Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs · tree and pragmatics description: Before Narmer, Egypt had two lands. What were they called? Test 9 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. --- [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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs Before Narmer, Egypt had two lands. What were they called? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Egypt · **What happens:** have, call · **To what, where:** two lands, lands · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Before Narmer, Egypt had two lands. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t9:1 # text = Before Narmer, Egypt had two lands. 1 Before before ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Narmer Narmer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Egypt | two lands | | | before Narmer | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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 were they called? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t9:2 # text = What were they called? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past · passive | | lands *= land* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} North Egypt and East Egypt ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t9:o1:1 # text = North Egypt and East Egypt 1 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Old Egypt and New Egypt ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t9:o2:1 # text = Old Egypt and New Egypt 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Big Egypt and Little Egypt ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t9:o3:1 # text = Big Egypt and Little Egypt 1 Big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs:t9:o4:1 # text = Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt 1 Upper upper ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Lower Lower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ ``` 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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