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title: Charlie reads that spices hid rotten meat. What would his mum say? — Trade: why people swap, and the great… · tree and pragmatics
description: Charlie reads that spices hid rotten meat. What would his mum say? Test 7 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 question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes

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Charlie reads that spices hid rotten meat. What would his mum say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Charlie, spices, mum · **What happens:** read, hide, say · **To what, where:** rotten meat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 of lesson 70 «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» 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/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Charlie reads that spices hid rotten meat.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:t7:1
# text = Charlie reads that spices hid rotten meat.
1	Charlie	Charlie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | Charlie |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hide** | past | spices | rotten meat |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |

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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:* What would his mum say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:t7:2
# text = What would his mum say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | Charlie's mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Meat never went off in the past, so it's a myth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:t7:o1:1
# text = Meat never went off in the past, so it's a myth
1	Meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go off** | past | Meat |  |  | the past |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in past=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, spices made rotten meat totally safe and tasty to eat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:t7:o2:1
# text = Yes, spices made rotten meat totally safe and tasty to eat
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tasty	tasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle | spices *not said here* | rotten meat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meat=Product |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | rotten meat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Spices were only for medicine, never for cooking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:t7:o3:1
# text = Spices were only for medicine, never for cooking
1	Spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Spices |  |  |  |  | for medicine and cooking | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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People who could buy spices could buy fresh meat too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes:t7:o4:1
# text = People who could buy spices could buy fresh meat too
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | could | People | spices |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spice=Theme |
| 2 | **buy** | could | People | fresh meat |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme |

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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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