Test 13 · ★ · Old Tales, Virgilius, part 65: Virgilius frees a spirit, g…

no way, what were the statues on the Capitol?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: way · What happens: be · To what, where: statues, Capitol

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1814 «Old Tales, Virgilius, part 65: Virgilius frees a spirit, gets the magic books, and faces his foes» of the books 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 statues	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 statues	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 statues	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 statues	det
7	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 way	appos
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Capitol	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Capitol	det
10	Capitol	Capitol	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 statues	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no way	the statues		the Capitol			tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Emperors who ruled the empire well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Emperors	emperor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ruled	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 ruled	nsubj
3	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 empire	det
5	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ruled	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 ruled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	Emperors	the empire				well property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Theme

Option 2

Gods of Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 Rome	case
3	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Gods	nmod

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

Option 3

Gods honoured by the Roman senate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	honoured	honour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Gods	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 senate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 senate	det
5	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 senate	amod
6	senate	senate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 honoured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	honour	participle		Gods not said here				by the Roman senate	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Gods worshipped by every nation under Rome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	worshipped	worshipp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Gods	acl
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 nation	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 nation	det
5	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 worshipped	obl
6	under	under	ADP	_	7 Rome	case
7	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 nation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	worshipp	participle		Gods not said here				by every nation under Rome	tree rules

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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