--- title: how'd people eat before there were farms — Time and history: the timeline and how… · tree and pragmatics description: how'd people eat before there were farms Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/48-time-and-history/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Time and history: the timeline and how…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/48-time-and-history/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago how'd people eat before there were farms **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** 'd people, farms · **What happens:** eat, be This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» of the world 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/world/48-time-and-history/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t11:1 # text = how'd people eat before there were farms 1 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd 'd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | 'd people | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | past | farms | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} They did not eat until farms came ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t11:o1:1 # text = They did not eat until farms came 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 until until SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **eat** | past · do-support | They | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | past | farms | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} They ate only fish from the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t11:o2:1 # text = They ate only fish from the sea 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | They | fish | | the sea | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} They hunted animals and gathered wild plants ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t11:o3:1 # text = They hunted animals and gathered wild plants 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | past | They | animals | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 2 | **gather** | past | They *not said here* | wild plants | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} They bought food in shops ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t11:o4:1 # text = They bought food in shops 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | past | They | food | | shops | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | **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. 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