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title: ★★★ Seren in Swansea: «Vikings in horned helmets, proper history, mu… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Seren in Swansea: «Vikings in horned helmets, proper history, mun.» Fix it. Test 10 · ★★★ 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

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★★★ Seren in Swansea: «Vikings in horned helmets, proper history, mun.» Fix it.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★, you · **What happens:** ★, fix · **To what, where:** Seren, Swansea, mun

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This is test 10 · ★★★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Seren in Swansea: «Vikings in horned helmets, proper history, mun.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t10:1
# text = ★★★ Seren in Swansea: «Vikings in horned helmets, proper history, mun.»
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	Seren	Seren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Swansea	Swansea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	horned	horned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	mun	mun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **★** | present | ★ | Seren |  | Swansea |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* Fix it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t10:2
# text = Fix it.
1	Fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | imperative | you *not said here* | mun |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The horns were Roman, not Viking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t10:o1:1
# text = The horns were Roman, not Viking
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	Viking	Viking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the horns |  |  |  |  | Viking *vocative*; roman *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only Viking kings ever wore horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t10:o2:1
# text = Only Viking kings ever wore horns
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Viking	viking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | Viking kings | horns |  |  | ever |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horn=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The horns come from an opera of 1876

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t10:o3:1
# text = The horns come from an opera of 1876
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	opera	opera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1876	1876	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the horns |  |  | a opera of 1876 |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from opera=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The horns are right, but they were gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t10:o4:1
# text = The horns are right, but they were gold
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the horns |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | horns *= horn* | gold |  |  |  |  | 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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