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title: Which is the wisest summary of why places grow rich? — Why some places grew rich · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is the wisest summary of why places grow rich? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 72 «Why some places grew rich» 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.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Why some places grew rich

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Which is the wisest summary of why places grow rich?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** places · **What happens:** be, grow · **To what, where:** wisest summary

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 72 «Why some places grew rich» 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/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:72-why-some-places-grew-rich:t11:1
# text = Which is the wisest summary of why places grow rich?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	summary	summary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the wisest summary |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | places |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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Only the cleverness of one king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:72-why-some-places-grew-rich:t11:o1:1
# text = Only the cleverness of one king
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only gold and silver, because the countries with the most mines always end up the richest

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:72-why-some-places-grew-rich:t11:o2:1
# text = Only gold and silver, because the countries with the most mines always end up the richest
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end up** | present | gold and silver | the richest |  |  |  | always *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Many causes together: geography, trade, skills, laws, and sometimes taking from others

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:72-why-some-places-grew-rich:t11:o3:1
# text = Many causes together: geography, trade, skills, laws, and sometimes taking from others
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	causes	cause	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | Many causes and geography and trade and skills and laws *not said here* |  |  | others |  | sometimes *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from other=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only the weather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:72-why-some-places-grew-rich:t11:o4:1
# text = Only the weather
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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