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title: Identify the substance traded over long distances more than ten thou… — Trade: why people swap, and the great… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the substance traded over long distances more than ten thousand years ago, prior to the emergence of cities. Exam question 1 of lesson 70 «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Exam question 1 · Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes

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Identify the substance traded over long distances more than ten thousand years ago, prior to the emergence of cities.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, substance, cities · **What happens:** identify, trade, emerge · **To what, where:** long distances

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 70 «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:e1:1
# text = Identify the substance traded over long distances more than ten thousand years ago, prior to the emergence of cities.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	traded	trade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	distances	distance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	11	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	emergence	emergence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | prior the emergence of cities | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **trade** | past | the substance | long distances |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme |
| 3 | **emerge** |  | cities |  |  |  |  |  | nom emergence «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Paper money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:e1:o1:1
# text = Paper money
1	Paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Obsidian, a volcanic glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:e1:o2:1
# text = Obsidian, a volcanic glass
1	Obsidian	Obsidian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Plastic goods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:e1:o3:1
# text = Plastic goods
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Porcelain from China

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:e1:o4:1
# text = Porcelain from China
1	Porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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