--- title: Amir guesses like 300 countries on the globe. Better guess? — From band to nation: families, tribes,… · tree and pragmatics description: Amir guesses like 300 countries on the globe. Better guess? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 66 «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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 w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries/t7/) [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/) / [From band to nation: families, tribes,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires a… Amir guesses like 300 countries on the globe. Better guess? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Amir · **What happens:** guess · **To what, where:** globe This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 66 «From band to nation: families, tribes, kingdoms, empires and countries» 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/66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Amir guesses like 300 countries on the globe. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries:t7:1 # text = Amir guesses like 300 countries on the globe. 1 Amir Amir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 guesses guess VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 globe globe NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | present | Amir | | | the globe | | like 300 countries | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:* Better guess? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries:t7:2 # text = Better guess? 1 Better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} About 12 or so ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries:t7:o1:1 # text = About 12 or so 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} About 1,000, easy ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries:t7:o2:1 # text = About 1,000, easy 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} About 195 ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries:t7:o3:1 # text = About 195 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 195 195 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} About 51, max ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:66-from-band-to-nation-families-tribes-kingdoms-empires-and-countries:t7:o4:1 # text = About 51, max 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 51 51 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 max max NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ ``` 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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