--- title: Which pair of scripts both grew from the old alphabet of the Phoenic… — How writing began: from tally marks an… · tree and pragmatics description: Which pair of scripts both grew from the old alphabet of the Phoenicians? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 82 «How writing began: from tally marks and pictures to the alphabet» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/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/) / [How writing began: from tally marks an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★ · How writing began: from tally marks and pictures to the al… Which pair of scripts both grew from the old alphabet of the Phoenicians? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pair · **What happens:** grow This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 82 «How writing began: from tally marks and pictures to the alphabet» 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/82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet:t9:1 # text = Which pair of scripts both grew from the old alphabet of the Phoenicians? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 scripts script NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 both both ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 alphabet alphabet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Phoenicians Phoenician PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | which pair of scripts | | | | | from the old alphabet of the Phoenicians; both *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from alphabet=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} Chinese and Maya ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet:t9:o1:1 # text = Chinese and Maya 1 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Maya Maya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Latin and Arabic ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet:t9:o2:1 # text = Latin and Arabic 1 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Arabic Arabic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Chinese and Japanese ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet:t9:o3:1 # text = Chinese and Japanese 1 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Japanese Japanese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Egyptian hieroglyphs and cuneiform ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:82-how-writing-began-from-tally-marks-and-pictures-to-the-alphabet:t9:o4:1 # text = Egyptian hieroglyphs and cuneiform 1 Egyptian Egyptian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 hieroglyphs hieroglyph NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 cuneiform cuneiform NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` 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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