--- title: Identify the river along which the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-dar… — Ancient India: the Indus cities and th… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the river along which the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were situated. Exam question 1 of lesson 7 «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms/e1/) [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 India: the Indus cities and th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms Identify the river along which the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were situated. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, situate · **To what, where:** river, cities This is exam question 1 of lesson 7 «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:e1:1 # text = Identify the river along which the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were situated. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 along along ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 7 det _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Harappa Harappa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Mohenjo Mohenjo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 daro daro X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat:foreign _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 situated situate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the river | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent river=Theme | | 2 | **situate** | past · passive | | which cities of Harappa and Mohenjo | | | | | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme | 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} The Indus ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:e1:o1:1 # text = The Indus 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Indus Indus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The Ganges ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:e1:o2:1 # text = The Ganges 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Ganges Ganges PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The Euphrates ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:e1:o3:1 # text = The Euphrates 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Euphrates Euphrate PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The Yangtze ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:e1:o4:1 # text = The Yangtze 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Yangtze Yangtze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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