--- title: Ascertain the name of the early Indian game from which modern chess… — Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our nu… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the name of the early Indian game from which modern chess is descended. Exam question 4 of lesson 8 «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» 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 wr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/e4/) [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: Ashoka, zero and our nu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers Ascertain the name of the early Indian game from which modern chess is descended. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, descend, name · **To what, where:** name, modern chess, early Indian game This is exam question 4 of lesson 8 «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» 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/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the name of the early Indian game from which modern chess is descended. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 obl _ _ 11 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 chess chess NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 descended descend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the name of the early Indian game | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 2 | **descend** | present · passive | | modern chess | | the early Indian game | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **name** | | | the early Indian game | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Go ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:e4:o1:1 # text = Go 1 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Senet ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:e4:o2:1 # text = Senet 1 Senet Senet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Mancala ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:e4:o3:1 # text = Mancala 1 Mancala Mancala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Chaturanga ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:e4:o4:1 # text = Chaturanga 1 Chaturanga Chaturanga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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