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title: ★★★ A game's Roman market stall sells potatoes, wheat bread, olives… — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ A game's Roman market stall sells potatoes, wheat bread, olives and grapes. Which item is the slip? Test 11 · ★★★ 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 c
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

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★★★ A game's Roman market stall sells potatoes, wheat bread, olives and grapes. Which item is the slip?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, item · **What happens:** sell, be · **To what, where:** potatoes, slip

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This is test 11 · ★★★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ A game's Roman market stall sells potatoes, wheat bread, olives and grapes.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t11:1
# text = ★★★ A game's Roman market stall sells potatoes, wheat bread, olives and grapes.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
10	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	olives	olive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | present | ★ ★ a game's Roman market stall | potatoes and wheat bread and olives and grapes |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Theme |

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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:* Which item is the slip?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t11:2
# text = Which item is the slip?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Grapes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t11:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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Olives

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t11:o2:1
# 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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Potatoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:t11:o3:1
# text = Potatoes
1	Potatoes	potato	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:t11: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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**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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