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description: What would happen if someone found a long Indus text written next to a known language? Test 8 · ★ 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 ch
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# Test 8 · ★ · Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms

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What would happen if someone found a long Indus text written next to a known language?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** someone · **What happens:** happen, find, write, know · **To what, where:** long Indus text, known language

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t8:1
# text = What would happen if someone found a long Indus text written next to a known language?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	next	next	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | someone | a long Indus text |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Topic |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  | a long Indus text *not said here* | a known language |  |  | next *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to language=Recipient |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Nothing, no writing can ever be read

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t8:o1:1
# text = Nothing, no writing can ever be read
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | can · passive |  | Nothing |  |  | ever |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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

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It might help us read the Indus writing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t8:o2:1
# text = It might help us read the Indus writing
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | might | It | us |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **read** | infinitive | us *not said here* | the Indus writing |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
All the cities would come back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t8:o3:1
# text = All the cities would come back
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | would | all cities |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would prove the Indus people were Romans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t8:o4:1
# text = It would prove the Indus people were Romans
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Indus	Indus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | would | It | the Indus people |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Romans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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