Exam question 1 · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…
Which individual was entrusted by the Roman Fathers with supreme authority over the city?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Roman Fathers · What happens: entrust · To what, where: individual, city
This is exam question 1 of lesson 350 «Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman leaves his field to save Rome and then gives back his power» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 individual | det |
| 2 | individual | individual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entrusted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entrusted | aux:pass |
| 4 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Fathers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fathers | det |
| 7 | Roman | Roman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fathers | compound |
| 8 | Fathers | Father | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 entrusted | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 authority | case |
| 10 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 authority | amod |
| 11 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entrusted | obl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entrusted | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 entrusted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrust | past · passive | the Roman Fathers | which individual | the city | with supreme authority | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient with authority=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
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Cincinnatus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cincinnatus | cincinnatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Lucius Flaccus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lucius | Lucius | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Flaccus | Flaccus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lucius | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The old farmer who was plowing in the field
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farmer | amod |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 plowing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plowing | aux |
| 6 | plowing | plow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 farmer | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 field | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 field | det |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plowing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plow | past · progressive | the old farmer | the field | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Napoleon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Napoleon | Napoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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