Test 1 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

bruh, what was Cincinnatus up to when the messengers showed up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cincinnatus · What happens: be, show up · To what, where: Cincinnatus

This is test 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. 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 Cincinnatus	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Cincinnatus	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Cincinnatus	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Cincinnatus	cop
5	Cincinnatus	Cincinnatus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 showed	nsubj
6	up	up	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	11 showed	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 up	fixed
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 showed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 messengers	det
10	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 showed	nsubj
11	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 showed	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 showed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Cincinnatus					tree rules
2	show up	past	Cincinnatus						vn appear-48.1.1 «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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Plowing his field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plowing	plow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 field	nmod:poss
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plowing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plow	gerund		his field					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial_Location

Option 3

Hunting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Building a stone wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wall	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wall	compound
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Building	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	gerund		a stone wall					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product

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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