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title: ★★★ A comic shows a Viking raider at Lindisfarne in 793 reading a pr… — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and whi… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ A comic shows a Viking raider at Lindisfarne in 793 reading a printed book. What's the problem? Test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 85 «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★

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★★★ A comic shows a Viking raider at Lindisfarne in 793 reading a printed book. What's the problem?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★, comic, Viking raider, problem · **What happens:** ★, show, read, print, be · **To what, where:** Viking raider, Lindisfarne, printed book

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 85 «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ A comic shows a Viking raider at Lindisfarne in 793 reading a printed book.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:t7:1
# text = ★★★ A comic shows a Viking raider at Lindisfarne in 793 reading a printed book.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	comic	comic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Viking	viking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	raider	raider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lindisfarne	Lindisfarne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	793	793	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
14	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **★** | present | ★ |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | a comic | a Viking raider |  | Lindisfarne |  | in 793 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent raider=Patient in 793=Topic |
| 3 | **read** | gerund | a Viking raider *not said here* | a printed book |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
| 4 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's the problem?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:t7:2
# text = What's the problem?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the problem |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Printing in Europe came about 650 years later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:t7:o1:1
# text = Printing in Europe came about 650 years later
1	Printing	printing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	650	650	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come about** | past | Printing in Europe |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, Vikings printed books

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:t7:o2:1
# text = Nothing, Vikings printed books
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **book** |  | Vikings |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, except the book should be in Latin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:t7:o3:1
# text = Nothing, except the book should be in Latin
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	except	except	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should | Nothing |  |  | Latin |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Vikings had no writing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:t7:o4:1
# text = Vikings had no writing at all
1	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Vikings | no writing |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent writing=Patient |

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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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