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title: farmers just digging a well and find 8000 clay soldiers?? what'd the… — Ancient China: dynasties, the First Em… · tree and pragmatics
description: farmers just digging a well and find 8000 clay soldiers?? what'd they find? Test 6 of lesson 9 «Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall» 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 wa
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# Test 6 · Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great…

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farmers just digging a well and find 8000 clay soldiers?? what'd they find?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** farmers, 8000 clay soldiers, soldiers · **What happens:** dig, find, ?? · **To what, where:** well · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 of lesson 9 «Ancient China: dynasties, the First Emperor and the Great Wall» 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/9-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:9-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall:t6:1
# text = farmers just digging a well and find 8000 clay soldiers?? what'd they find?
1	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	8000	8000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	??	??	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | gerund | farmers | a well |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent well=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive | farmers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **??** | present | 8000 clay soldiers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | would | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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 {#o1}

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A Roman army camp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:9-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall:t6:o1:1
# text = A Roman army camp
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Terracotta Army of the First Emperor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:9-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall:t6:o2:1
# text = The Terracotta Army of the First Emperor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Terracotta	Terracotta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Army	Army	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A Maya city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:9-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall:t6:o3:1
# text = A Maya city
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A Viking ship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:9-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall:t6:o4:1
# text = A Viking ship
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Viking	viking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ship	ship	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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