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title: ★★★ Lily plays a game: «A Plains warrior on horseback in the year 13… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Lily plays a game: «A Plains warrior on horseback in the year 1300, epic!» What's wrong? Test 1 · ★★★ 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 ri
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# Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

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★★★ Lily plays a game: «A Plains warrior on horseback in the year 1300, epic!» What's wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** play, be · **To what, where:** game

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This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Lily plays a game: «A Plains warrior on horseback in the year 1300, epic!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t1:1
# text = ★★★ Lily plays a game: «A Plains warrior on horseback in the year 1300, epic!»
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Plains	Plain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	1300	1300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	epic	epic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | ★ ★ Lily | a game |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent game=Theme clause=Eventuality |

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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 wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t1:2
# text = What's wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Horses came back to the Americas with the Spanish, after 1492

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t1:o1:1
# text = Horses came back to the Americas with the Spanish, after 1492
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Americas	AMERICAS	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1492	1492	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | Horses |  |  | the Americas | after 1492 | with the Spanish | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to americas=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing; horses first came from America to Spain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t1:o2:1
# text = Nothing; horses first came from America to Spain
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Nothing |  | Spain | America |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from america=Initial\_Location to spain=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing; Plains peoples rode horses for a million years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t1:o3:1
# text = Nothing; Plains peoples rode horses for a million years
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Plains	Plain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | Nothing | horses |  |  | year |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only that the horse should really be a camel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t1:o4:1
# text = Only that the horse should really be a camel
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | imperative | you *not said here* | a camel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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