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title: Determine which foodstuff could not have been eaten in ancient Rome. — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine which foodstuff could not have been eaten in ancient Rome. Exam question 4 of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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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# Exam question 4 · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

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Determine which foodstuff could not have been eaten in ancient Rome.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** determine, not eat · **To what, where:** foodstuff, ancient Rome

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e4:1
# text = Determine which foodstuff could not have been eaten in ancient Rome.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	foodstuff	foodstuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | could · perfect · passive |  | which foodstuff |  | ancient Rome |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Olives

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e4:o1:1
# text = Olives
1	Olives	olive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The potato

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e4:o2:1
# text = The potato
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Grapes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e4:o3:1
# text = Grapes
1	Grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wheat bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e4:o4:1
# text = Wheat bread
1	Wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bread	bread	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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