--- title: Most towns in Europe 4,500 years ago had no drains. Which is true? — Ancient India: the Indus cities and th… · tree and pragmatics description: Most towns in Europe 4,500 years ago had no drains. Which is true? Test 9 · ★ 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 wrong. --- [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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms Most towns in Europe 4,500 years ago had no drains. Which is true? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Most towns · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** drains This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Most towns in Europe 4,500 years ago had no drains. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t9:1 # text = Most towns in Europe 4,500 years ago had no drains. 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 4,500 4,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 ago ago ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 10 drains drain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Most towns in Europe | no drains | | | | ago *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drain=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which is true? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t9:2 # text = Which is true? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Europe had much better drains than India did ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t9:o1:1 # text = Europe had much better drains than India did 1 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 much much ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 drains drain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Europe | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | past | better drains than India | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} The Indus cities had no houses ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t9:o2:1 # text = The Indus cities had no houses 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Indus Indus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the Indus cities | no houses | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The Indus cities were far ahead in planning ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t9:o3:1 # text = The Indus cities were far ahead in planning 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Indus Indus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 6 ahead ahead ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 planning planning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Indus cities | | | planning | | ahead, far *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nobody anywhere had houses then ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms:t9:o4:1 # text = Nobody anywhere had houses then 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 2 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Nobody | houses | | | then | anywhere *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | **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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