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title: Your friend thinks all Stone Age people lived in caves. What could y… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Your friend thinks all Stone Age people lived in caves. What could you show them? Test 10 of lesson 21 «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths 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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# Test 10 · Ancient times and famous stories

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Your friend thinks all Stone Age people lived in caves. What could you show them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, Age people, you · **What happens:** think, live, show · **To what, where:** caves, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 21 «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths 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/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your friend thinks all Stone Age people lived in caves.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories:t10:1
# text = Your friend thinks all Stone Age people lived in caves.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
5	Stone	Stone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Your friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | all Age people |  |  | caves |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |

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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 could you show them?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories:t10:2
# text = What could you show them?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | could | you | people |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient they=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A photograph of a cave taken during the Stone Age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories:t10:o1:1
# text = A photograph of a cave taken during the Stone Age
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	photograph	photograph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	during	during	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Stone	Stone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | participle |  | a photograph of a cave *not said here* |  |  | during the Stone Age |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A modern house with stone walls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories:t10:o2:1
# text = A modern house with stone walls
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A cartoon of a family in a cave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories:t10:o3:1
# text = A cartoon of a family in a cave
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cartoon** |  |  | a family |  | a cave |  |  | nom cartoon «communication transitive»: of=patient in=place |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Remains of huts and camps found in the open

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories:t10:o4:1
# text = Remains of huts and camps found in the open
1	Remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	camps	camp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | participle · passive |  | Remains of huts and camps |  | the open |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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