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title: Why would covered drains make a city healthier? — Ancient India: the Indus cities and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would covered drains make a city healthier? Test 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 choice was right.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms

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Why would covered drains make a city healthier?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** covered drains · **What happens:** cover, make · **To what, where:** city

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 7 «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» 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/7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t1:1
# text = Why would covered drains make a city healthier?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	drains	drain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	healthier	healthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | covered drains | a city |  |  |  | healthy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Drains keep out robbers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t1:o1:1
# text = Drains keep out robbers
1	Drains	drain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep out** | present | Drains | robbers |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Dirty water is kept away from people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t1:o2:1
# text = Dirty water is kept away from people
1	Dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep away** | present · passive | people | Dirty water |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Covered drains grow food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t1:o3:1
# text = Covered drains grow food
1	Covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	drains	drain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | present | Covered drains | food |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Drains make the streets warmer in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t1:o4:1
# text = Drains make the streets warmer in winter
1	Drains	drain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Drains | the streets |  |  | winter | warm *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset street=Product |

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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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