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title: You dig up a seal with a bull and signs nobody can read. Where was i… — Ancient India: the Indus cities and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: You dig up a seal with a bull and signs nobody can read. Where was it probably from? Test 3 · ★ 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 choi
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# Test 3 · ★ · Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms

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You dig up a seal with a bull and signs nobody can read. Where was it probably from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You, nobody, seal · **What happens:** dig up, read, be · **To what, where:** seal, signs

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You dig up a seal with a bull and signs nobody can read.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t3:1
# text = You dig up a seal with a bull and signs nobody can read.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig up** | present | You | a seal |  |  |  | with a bull and signs | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent seal=Theme with bull=Instrument |
| 2 | **read** | can | nobody | signs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic |

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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:* Where was it probably from?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t3:2
# text = Where was it probably from?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ancient Rome

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t3:o1:1
# text = Ancient Rome
1	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Aztec Empire in Mexico

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t3:o2:1
# text = The Aztec Empire in Mexico
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Aztec	Aztec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Viking Norway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t3:o3:1
# text = Viking Norway
1	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The Indus Valley cities

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t3:o4:1
# text = The Indus Valley cities
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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