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title: Molly says Domesday Book sounds like a horror film. What did «doom»… — Rules, courts, police, taxes and armie… · tree and pragmatics
description: Molly says Domesday Book sounds like a horror film. What did «doom» mean? Test 10 of lesson 68 «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» 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 10 · Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time

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Molly says Domesday Book sounds like a horror film. What did «doom» mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Molly, Domesday Book, doom · **What happens:** say, sound, mean · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 68 «Rules, courts, police, taxes and armies through time» 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/68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Molly says Domesday Book sounds like a horror film.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time:t10:1
# text = Molly says Domesday Book sounds like a horror film.
1	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Domesday	Domesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Molly |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sound** | present | Domesday Book |  |  |  |  | like a horror film | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:* What did «doom» mean?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time:t10:2
# text = What did «doom» mean?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past · do-support | doom |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Judgement, because the records were final

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time:t10:o1:1
# text = Judgement, because the records were final
1	Judgement	judgement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the records |  |  |  |  | final *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The end of the world, which people feared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time:t10:o2:1
# text = The end of the world, which people feared
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | past | the end of the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A kind of tax on doors and windows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time:t10:o3:1
# text = A kind of tax on doors and windows
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Monsters and ghosts that haunted the land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:68-rules-courts-police-taxes-and-armies-through-time:t10:o4:1
# text = Monsters and ghosts that haunted the land
1	Monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **haunt** | past | Monsters and ghosts | the land |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer |

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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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